In the run-up to the 1983 presidential election, the incumbent President Shehu Shagari, had a commissioning ceremony for the Onitsha River port ostensibly to curry votes from the South East. The port never really functioned after that ceremony. Twenty-nine years later, in August 2012, there was a
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