I Will Resign If Abuja Airport Is Not Opened By April 19 – Aviation Minister

The Minister of State for

Aviation Hadi Sirika, has said

that he will resign if the Abuja

International Airport is not

opened by April 19, 2017.

The minister made this known at a

meeting between the Ministry of

Information and an Aviation

Industry Pressure Group in Lagos.

The Minister said the level of work

on the Abuja runway in the past

three weeks shows that the re-

opening will be on schedule.

At the same meeting, the Minister

of Information, Lai Mohammed

debunked social media reports

saying the runway will be closed

for an extended 18 weeks.

The Federal Government had on

March 8, 2017 closed the Abuja

International Airport for six weeks,

to enable repair works on the

runway which is said to be

dysfunctional.