Ebonyi International Airport Turned Into Car Park? True Facts Emerge

A few days ago, a Twitter user wrote a post stating that the newly commissioned Ebonyi State Airport has been turned into a motor park.

In the post made by @Ekwulu on Twitter, he criticized the immediate past Governor of Ebonyi State, David Umahi, for building the airport in “poor” Ebonyi State.

The new Airport in Ebonyi State is one named after the immediate past President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. In the post, the social media user wrote:

“Ebonyi Airport, shunned by Airlines, turned into a motor park. Only God knows why the APC Ex-Governor built an airport in one of the poorest states in Nigeria. An airport should not be the most important infrastructure in a state with a high poverty rate. SMH.” 

Since the tweet went up, it has gathered thousands of likes, retweets, and views.

However, facts from Trust Check, a fact-checking platform, revealed that the airport that the immediate past Nigerian leader commissioned, Buhari, has been functional, although it is not experiencing flight traffic as expected. 

Trust Check also quoted Frank Ngwu, the project coordinator of the airport, as saying: 

“It is difficult to see a newly inaugurated airport in Nigeria recording the volume of passenger operations as ours. It would have taken other airports more than six months to be operational but ours has gone full swing since it was test-run less than two months ago.” 

In May 2022, it was reported that David Umahi was making the audacious move of building an international airport in Ebonyi State. The airport was commissioned in April 2023 and is said to be both human and cargo-enabled, with government officials saying it will attract investments domestically and internationally.