Ebonyi State government, yesterday, berated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its comment on the inauguration of the Chuba Okadigbo Airport runway last week by the wife of the President, Oluremi Tinubu, after its upgrade, describing the comment as childish.

Moses Idika, the head of media of the 2023 governorship candidate of the PDP, Chukwuma Odii, had, in a statement, noted that the government wasted Ebonyi resources on the Airport by spending about N20 billion to rehabilitate its runway.

Reacting, the Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Jude Okpor, said the opposition party wanted the state government not to upgrade the Airport runway, which cost the past administration billions of naira to construct.

He stated that the state government wishes to place on record that as a state blessed with enormous natural resources, the idea of beating whatever structural impediments hindered the commencement of flight operations in the said Airport before the inauguration of the current administration is a far better and progressive option than abandoning it.

He added that Governor Francis Nwifuru had, in several fora, assured Ebonyi people that his administration would not only perfect the project from the stage he met it but finally put it to use in other to open up the state to the outside/global community towards welcoming business opportunities and other global investments.

Okpor insisted that commissioning the runway by the wife of the President is a step in the right direction, adding that the writer is one of the enemies of the state who had expected the enormous investment of the state on the Airport to lay waste.