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Ango Abdullahi Bares It All by NASTYNASOSO: 7:30am On Jun 21, 2017 |
Excerpts from Punch interview with Prof. Ango
Abdullahi
Q: Southerners are angry that you attempted to
rewrite history by saying that money from the
North was used to develop the South. Why are
you trying to rewrite history?
A: I am not rewriting history. My teacher in
Barewa College has compiled the economic
status of Nigeria from 1914 to 1960 and if you
care to find that document, you will find what
the financial relationships were between the
Federal and the regional governments and how
funds were moving from one part of the country
to the other. That is one. You can look for it, you
will get it. I can also tell you that the resources
of the North were the basic sources of
infrastructural development in this country,
talking about the railway, the ports and so on
and so forth. There is no question about that
one. Also without doubt, the resources of the
North were used for the exploitation of oil. You
go and ask the first Minister of Mines, Power and
Steel Resource (that was in charge of the oil
portfolio in the First Republic), who is the
longest serving up till date, Maitama Sule, he
served as minister for six years. Shell asked him,
this money that you are taking from the North, is
it an investment or a loan? And our leaders at
the time said the money belonged to a part of
Nigeria and one day, the whole of Nigeria would
benefit from it. So you see when some stupid
comments keep coming from people who really
did nothing about oil industry development and
so on, I call oil money idle money. This is money
that Nigerians have not worked for. The
development of a country is not dependent on
idle funds, which oil money is. You have to work
for things and that is why from northern Nigeria
where farmers are toiling to feed the country,
they send goods outside the country and so on.
Up till 1974, the foreign exchange of this country
was dependent on exports of agricultural
products, mostly from the North. So if people are
not quite literate about the history of Nigeria,
they should please go and read a lot more and
they will be able to understand what I am saying.
Q: Are you denying the fact that Nigeria made
money from other regions like the South-West,
which had cocoa and the Mid-Western Region
that had palm oil and so on?
A: Of course, I agree. We agree! We agree! But
all the same, the colonial masters that were
running the affairs of the country had records
and how funds were used to balance the budgets
of the various regions and how the North played
a major role in balancing budgets of even
governments in the southern part of the country.
Records are available; you go and check them. It
was up till 1974 when commercial exports of
crude oil began to really take over from
agricultural exports; that is why I’m referring to
1974. And you go and check the speeches of
Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.) in his last year in
office and so on, when the oil exports began to
manifest. For example, during the civil war, this
country didn’t borrow a kobo to prosecute the
war for three years under the leadership of Chief
Obafemi Awolowo, a ‘veteran person’, who knew
how to manage small resources.[i]Excerpts from Punch interview with Prof. Ango
Abdullahi
Q: Southerners are angry that you attempted to
rewrite history by saying that money from the
North was used to develop the South. Why are
you trying to rewrite history?
A: I am not rewriting history. My teacher in
Barewa College has compiled the economic
status of Nigeria from 1914 to 1960 and if you
care to find that document, you will find what
the financial relationships were between the
Federal and the regional governments and how
funds were moving from one part of the country
to the other. That is one. You can look for it, you
will get it. I can also tell you that the resources
of the North were the basic sources of
infrastructural development in this country,
talking about the railway, the ports and so on
and so forth. There is no question about that
one. Also without doubt, the resources of the
North were used for the exploitation of oil. You
go and ask the first Minister of Mines, Power and
Steel Resource (that was in charge of the oil
portfolio in the First Republic), who is the
longest serving up till date, Maitama Sule, he
served as minister for six years. Shell asked him,
this money that you are taking from the North, is
it an investment or a loan? And our leaders at
the time said the money belonged to a part of
Nigeria and one day, the whole of Nigeria would
benefit from it. So you see when some stupid
comments keep coming from people who really
did nothing about oil industry development and
so on, I call oil money idle money. This is money
that Nigerians have not worked for. The
development of a country is not dependent on
idle funds, which oil money is. You have to work
for things and that is why from northern Nigeria
where farmers are toiling to feed the country,
they send goods outside the country and so on.
Up till 1974, the foreign exchange of this country
was dependent on exports of agricultural
products, mostly from the North. So if people are
not quite literate about the history of Nigeria,
they should please go and read a lot more and
they will be able to understand what I am saying.
Q: Are you denying the fact that Nigeria made
money from other regions like the South-West,
which had cocoa and the Mid-Western Region
that had palm oil and so on?
A: Of course, I agree. We agree! We agree! But
all the same, the colonial masters that were
running the affairs of the country had records
and how funds were used to balance the budgets
of the various regions and how the North played
a major role in balancing budgets of even
governments in the southern part of the country.
Records are available; you go and check them. It
was up till 1974 when commercial exports of
crude oil began to really take over from
agricultural exports; that is why I’m referring to
1974. And you go and check the speeches of
Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.) in his last year in
office and so on, when the oil exports began to
manifest. For example, during the civil war, this
country didn’t borrow a kobo to prosecute the
war for three years under the leadership of Chief
Obafemi Awolowo, a ‘veteran person’, who knew
how to manage small resources.[/i]Excerpts from Punch interview with Prof. Ango
Abdullahi
Q: Southerners are angry that you attempted to
rewrite history by saying that money from the
North was used to develop the South. Why are
you trying to rewrite history?
A: I am not rewriting history. My teacher in
Barewa College has compiled the economic
status of Nigeria from 1914 to 1960 and if you
care to find that document, you will find what
the financial relationships were between the
Federal and the regional governments and how
funds were moving from one part of the country
to the other. That is one. You can look for it, you
will get it. I can also tell you that the resources
of the North were the basic sources of
infrastructural development in this country,
talking about the railway, the ports and so on
and so forth. There is no question about that
one. Also without doubt, the resources of the
North were used for the exploitation of oil. You
go and ask the first Minister of Mines, Power and
Steel Resource (that was in charge of the oil
portfolio in the First Republic), who is the
longest serving up till date, Maitama Sule, he
served as minister for six years. Shell asked him,
this money that you are taking from the North, is
it an investment or a loan? And our leaders at
the time said the money belonged to a part of
Nigeria and one day, the whole of Nigeria would
benefit from it. So you see when some stupid
comments keep coming from people who really
did nothing about oil industry development and
so on, I call oil money idle money. This is money
that Nigerians have not worked for. The
development of a country is not dependent on
idle funds, which oil money is. You have to work
for things and that is why from northern Nigeria
where farmers are toiling to feed the country,
they send goods outside the country and so on.
Up till 1974, the foreign exchange of this country
was dependent on exports of agricultural
products, mostly from the North. So if people are
not quite literate about the history of Nigeria,
they should please go and read a lot more and
they will be able to understand what I am saying.
Q: Are you denying the fact that Nigeria made
money from other regions like the South-West,
which had cocoa and the Mid-Western Region
that had palm oil and so on?
A: Of course, I agree. We agree! We agree! But
all the same, the colonial masters that were
running the affairs of the country had records
and how funds were used to balance the budgets
of the various regions and how the North played
a major role in balancing budgets of even
governments in the southern part of the country.
Records are available; you go and check them. It
was up till 1974 when commercial exports of
crude oil began to really take over from
agricultural exports; that is why I’m referring to
1974. And you go and check the speeches of
Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd.) in his last year in
office and so on, when the oil exports began to
manifest. For example, during the civil war, this
country didn’t borrow a kobo to prosecute the
war for three years under the leadership of Chief
Obafemi Awolowo, a ‘veteran person’, who knew
how to manage small resources. |
Re: Ango Abdullahi Bares It All by dodelight(m): 7:34am On Jun 21, 2017 |
This man is eternally delusional! Only God can reset his brain. |
Re: Ango Abdullahi Bares It All by BeardedMeat(m): 7:36am On Jun 21, 2017 |
I wonder when this old scum would become a vegetable also and be put out of his misery! 1 Like |
Re: Ango Abdullahi Bares It All by myola(m): 7:50am On Jun 21, 2017 |
What a love from north to south! And stupid enough to allowed britico to abandoned your region to developed other region! With your resources ! What a story! |
Re: Ango Abdullahi Bares It All by menxer: 8:08am On Jun 21, 2017 |
Why are we always responding with insults instead of facts? This man, whether he is right or not, is making claims based on facts available to him, why can't we refute his claims with facts also instead of insults? |
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