APC: NCAA flight approval for Ekiti airport, befitting Christmas gift

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority’s permission of unscheduled flight operations for Ekiti Agro-Allied International Cargo Airport in Ado Ekiti has been hailed by the All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State as fantastic news that couldn’t have arrived at a better moment.

Segun Dipe, the state APC publicity secretary, praised Biodun Oyebanji, the state governor, for the development and called him a “promise-keeper.”

In a statement released on Thursday, Yinka Oyebode, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, said that the NCAA had granted permission for the airport to conduct non-scheduled operations under Visual Flight Rules for a six-month period, from December 15, 2024, to June 15, 2025.

In anticipation of the final approval for commercial flight operations, Oyebode had said, “The Ekiti State government welcomes NCAA’s approval for the non-scheduled flight operation, which allows private jets and other chartered flights to land and take off from the airport between 6 am to 6 pm (or sunrise to sunset).”

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“This is a promise made and a promise kept, a Christmas gift specially wrapped for all in the state,” Dipe said in a statement released on Friday. That’s our perspective. We are quite pleased and boldly declare that it will benefit us to everyone’s satisfaction.Right now, the focus is on what has been accomplished rather than what was said incorrectly or correctly regarding the airport project. The governor deserves praise from the entire state for keeping his word and disregarding the doubters until the project advanced.

This sums everything up: We had big dreams and big accomplishments. It is the accomplishment of today for the glory of tomorrow.

Although it seemed impossible for a state like Ekiti to have an airport, we can be extremely happy that wonderful things are happening to us in Ekiti in a variety of ways because, as the saying goes, “with God, everything is possible.” We also have a very driven governor in place.

And we think that the state’s good citizens will be quite happy that this is occurring to us at this important moment. There was nothing more anyone could have wanted.