Rabiu Kwankwaso, the 2023 presidential candidate for the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), has voiced strong criticism of President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
During the Kano State Stakeholders’ Dialogue focused on the 2025 Constitutional Amendment, Kwankwaso highlighted that national resources appear to be disproportionately directed towards the southern region of the country, leaving the north to be overlooked and neglected.…CONTINUEREADING
“Let me advise the Federal Government on the distribution of federal resources.
“From the information available to us, it’s like most of the national budget is now tilting in one direction in this country,” he said.
He also accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of lopsided allocation of scarce resources between the two regions of the country.
“Let me advise those who are struggling by all means to take everything to remember that some of the issues that we have in this part of the country today have to do with the lack of enough resources and mismanagement of the little that comes in.
“That is why we have insecurity, we have poverty and so on. It is happening here mainly, but like a desert, it would go everywhere,” he said.
According to the former Kano governor, most roads in the northern region remain in a deplorable condition, whilst the APC government continues to allocate lump budgetary provisions for infrastructural development in the southern region.
“Yesterday, I was to come by air, but unfortunately my airline decided to shift out takeoff. I had to come by road from Abuja.
“From Abuja to Kaduna to Kano was terrible and the road was started many years ago right from the beginning of the leadership of the APC. Now we are told that there is a road from the south to the East,” he said.
He urged the Tinubu administration to ensure the equitable distribution of scarce resources for the development of all parts of the country.
How can Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, whom I have a lot of respect for, be talking like this & be playing the regional card, which is not good for national unity & cohesion. As far as I know, the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano expressway is one of the major highways that Works Minister, Dave Umahi, announced their rehabilitation contracts recently. That road, particularly the Kaduna-Kano section, that I have plied many times, had been in the state of disrepair for a long time right from the Administration of late President Buhari. There was a time it was awarded by the Buhari government to one big construction firm. Instead of playing to the gallery & making a reference to the construction of the east-west road from Lagos to Calabar which was conceived by the Buhari regime, he could call the Minister of Works & enquire on what has slowed down the rehabilitation. Stephen Yusuf, Ibadan.