Trouble may be looming over
allocations from the Federation
Account to the states as feelers
from the North indicate that the
governors believe they are not
getting a fair share from the nation’s commonwealth. Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of
Kano State, one of the 19
northern govs, yesterday,
slammed what he described as a
Federation Allocation regime
that enriches some states, especially those in the South-
south, but impoverishes the
northern states. Kwankwaso said pointedly: “In
this context, many other states,
specifically in the South-south
are today ahead of the northern
states in terms of income from
the Federation Account. This means that some states are
getting richer while others are
getting richer by the day and
people are wallowing in
devastating poverty.” He hinted that the northern
governors are also making an
issue out of the Petroleum
Industry Bill (PIB), currently in the
works in the National Assembly,
saying the implications of the Bill being passed in its form would
have dire consequences for the
North. He said the northern governors
would soon meet to consider the
implications of the PIB for the
region. Kwankwaso did not mention the
specifics of the northern
governors grouse with the PIB.
He spoke while commissioning the
Serbian General Consulate Office
in Kano, an event that coincided with the appointment of a
former lawmaker, Alhaji Faruk
Adamu Aliyu, as the Honoray
Consulate of the Republic. On the allocations from the
Federation Account to the
states, the governor said: “As a
former member of the Niger Delta
Development Commission (NDDC), a
former member of the National Assembly, a former minister and
now a governor, I have vast
knowledge of what is being
shared to all the states.”
‘UNCERTAIN FUTURE’
While speaking on the PIB, the
former defence minister under
Obasanjo administration and
one-time deputy speaker of the
House of Representatives said: “We in the North are keenly
watching and we will not allow
our region to be plunged into yet
another uncertain future as we
will do all we could to make sure
that there is equity that will guarantee a sense of belonging
to every citizenry”. The North today, he said, is at
the lowest political ebb,
stressing that it is the more
reason stakeholders from the
region need to sit on the
roundtable to make their stand known on the PIB and other
sundry matters in the polity. Commenting on the new Serbian
Consulate Office in Kano,
Kwankwaso said his
administration would exploit
their presence to the benefit of
Nigerians. The leader of the Kwankwasiyya
political clan in Kano described
the new Honorary Consulate,
Aliyu, as a man of honor and
integrity, a reason, he said, the
Government of Serbia deemed it fit to appoint him as their
representative in the state. The ceremony attracted two
former Heads of State, General
Muhammad Buhari and General
Abdulsalami Abubakar; Speaker
of the House of Representatives,
Aminu Waziri Tambuwal; a former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN),
Justice Mohammed Uwais; Hon
Nasiru Garba Dantiye, among
others who variously believe
that the appointment of Aliyu
was a deserving one because the man is seen as a strategist, a
consummate politician and a man
of integrity.
www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/northern-govs-raised-the-alarm-over-oil-revenue-north-becoming-poorer-ssouth-getting-richer/

Continue to bomb and destroying your region and you want oil money to fix it back. Aboki

That's how it should be. South-south( Especially Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta and Akwa-Ibom) should be the richest region in Africa.

Atleast, the south da produce sometin.. (oil).. Watin North da produce wey dem wan take rich if no be to bomb places

Keep producing oil nd keep growing rich.. (south south)

Keep bombing churches nd keep growing poor (north)

Abagworo: That's how it should be. South-south( Especially Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta and Akwa-Ibom) should be the richest region in Africa.

Very correct.

another red herring to shun the fundamental issue of poor leadership.

the myraid of social and religious issues bedeviling develoment in the north needs serious reorientation.

Abagworo: That's how it should be. South-south( Especially Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta and Akwa-Ibom) should be the richest region in Africa.

true