Umahi stated this while speaking to state stakeholders and a delegation from the Federal Ministry of Aviation at the Onueke airport during a flight test.
According to ChinyKo, President Muhammadu Buhari will inaugurate the international airport named after him in the first week of May 2023.
It was gathered that two Air Peace Hopper airlines, No. 5N-BXF and No. 5-BUY which landed at the airport carried over one hundred passengers from Lagos and Abuja.
Umahi revealed his preparedness to hand over the airport to the federal government to run, noting that the state government can’t manage the airport.
He further stated that over 400 citizens of Ebonyi State were employed as staff of the airport.
Earlier in his remark, the director of the Civil Aviation Authority, CAA, who was represented by General Manager, Aerodrome Services, Mr Oladipo Adebayo, described the airport as the best of all the airports in Nigeria.
He applauded the Ebonyi State Government for using high-standard equipment to construct the airport, adding that with such quality materials used, the airport will stand the test of time.
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