However, about five months later, the promise was yet to be fulfilled.
“Everything we did then was based on understanding with the Federal Government, and the state government had to stretch itself beyond its financial capacity to ensure that the festival took place. “Then, a lot of funds had been expended before these postponements. It was in view of this that the Federal Government promised to support us to host the festival.
Omokhagbor added that the only information the state government got, upon inquiries into what has been causing the delay, was that the money was still being processed.
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