A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chika Nwoba, has queried the rationale behind the recommissioning of the rehabilitated runway of the Chuba Okadigbo Airport in Ebonyi State.

He said it amounted to a waste of resources since the airport had been commissioned two years ago.

The runway, which was rehabilitated by Governor Francis Nwifuru, was recommissioned by the wife of President, Remi Tinubu, on Friday, in an elaborate ceremony.

Reacting to the development, Nwoba stated that it was shameful that about two years after the airport built by former Governor Dave Umahi was commissioned by former President, Muhammed Buhari, without yielding a kobo to the state, more money was being spent to recommission it.

He said: “PDP in Ebonyi State uses this opportunity to berate the APC-led government of Ebonyi State over the government’s penchant for frivolities.

“It is disturbing. We don’t have a problem with hosting the President’s wife, but with the amount of public money that was sunk into it when the people of the state groan in hunger and abject poverty.

“It bothers a sane mind a great deal to know that the government could recommission an airport project that had already been commissioned two years ago. Using the face of the President’s wife as a decoy to embark on the wasteful and theatric outing is what we frown at. This is a case of government’s inhumanity to its populace.”