At the commissioning of the first Almajiri school in
Sokoto, the Sultan of Sokoto, the head of Muslims
in Nigeria clearly said that Jonathan's action is
unprecedented in the history of the north. The
word unprecedented means something nobody
has ever done before. Jonathan has built over 400 of these schools, free tuition , free meals , free
books, free uniforms , free schoo bags etc. Similar
to what Awo did for the south west. Yet 90% of those against him are northerners.
The last University built in the north is the University
of Agriculture Markurdi built 27 years ago by the
Babangida regime.
From 1960 till 2010, the north had nine heads of
state and only a total of nine federal universities was built during this period. Between 2010 and
2013, Jonathan has built nine federal universities in
the north alone . In 1982, President Shagari's government identified
the prospects of a power plant in Zungeru Niger
State. When Buhari kicked him out in 1983, no
leader talked about Zungeru again .
Two years ago, President Jonathan kick started the
163 billion naira project. The spiral effect of the construction alone will affect the economy of 80%
of those living within that environment positively. The 3,050 MW Mambilla project in Taraba was
conceived 32 years ago and all previous
governments used it for campaign and it was just
an avenue for fraud . Last year, President Jonathan
provided one billion dollars for the project to
commence . In 2014, President Jonathan launched the Great
Green Wall Initiative , a 100 billion naira regional
afforestation program designed to create a green
belt of that will prevent desert encroachment
towards 11 northern states. The states covered in
nigeria are Kebbi , Zamfara , gombe, Yobe, jigawa, adamawa, bauchi, katsina , Borno, sokoto and
Kano . The Abuja-Kaduna rail was started and completed
by this administration . In a few months, people
can actually live in Kaduna and work in Abuja. Today, importers from Kano can haul their
containers straight from Tin Can island to Kano,
while exporters in the north can move their
products from Kano to the sea port in lagos, by
railway as Jonathan has revived the railways. This is just a tip of numerous unprecedented
projects carried out by Jonathan in the north. Yet
the northern elders forum will come out strong to
fight jonathan openly asking northerners not to
vote him.
The opposition by the north against Jonathan is clearly not about performance but about tribalism
and religion. Let any northerner show me a northern president
that has done more than these for the north. I'm waiting to hear from my northern friends. No
insults or name calling. Let's be logical and factual