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The strongman of Kano politics, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has criticised the President Bola Tinubu administration for what he described as the neglect of the northern region of Nigeria and the concentration of the nation’s resources on developing the southern part of the country where the president comes from.

“Let me advise the Federal Government on the distribution of federal resources,” the former Kano governor said on Thursday at the Kano State Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the 2025 Constitutional Amendment.

“From the information available to us, it’s like most of the national budget is now tilting in one direction in this country.”

Kwankwaso, the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of lopsided allocation of scarce resources between the two regions of the country.

President Bola Tinubu presents the 2025 budget proposal to members of the National Assembly on Wednesday, December 18, 2024 in Abuja. Photo credit: Presidency

He said, “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.”

Kwankwaso said most roads in the northern region remained in deplorable condition, whilst the APC government continued to allocate lump budgetary allocations for infrastructural development in the southern region.

“Yesterday, I was to come by air, but unfortunately, my airline decided to shift our takeoff from 3pm to 8pm. I had to come by road. From Abuja to Kaduna to Kano was a hell. Terrible. Very bad road. This is a road 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. We support infrastructure anywhere in this country…and any other thing that is good for the masses but a situation where government is taking our resources and dumping it in one part of the country and other parts of the country are left just like that, I don’t believe that is the right thing to do by the government itself.”

He urged the Tinubu administration to change for the better and ensure the equitable distribution of scarce resources for the development of all parts of the country.

“This is the time for the government to change, to convince our people that the government is not just on one side of the country,” he said.

Now, we are told that there is a road from the South to the East.

chisomkachy:
https://www.channelstv.com/2025/07/24/tinubu-govt-develops-southern-nigeria-neglects-the-north-says-kwankwaso/

jmoore:
You were told? Who told you? Lagos-Calabar highway is not crossing any eastern state.

Babangidapikin:
Abeg which Southern State is he developing, abeg Uncle Bola is busy paying up debts, Nigeria has turn to a company

Firebox123:
atleast the road we use

Babangidapikin:
Abeg which road , cos the last time I travel the road aren't good .

Firebox123:
depend on the state you are travelling to

Babangidapikin:
Okay give me a state so I don't generalize

Firebox123:
lagos to ibadan expressway

Benin to sagamu expressway

Firebox123:
lagos to ibadan expressway

Benin to sagamu expressway

seunmsg:
Some of these folks talk as if Tinubu has been president for the past ten years. Buhari was president for eight out of the past ten years so what’s the blackmail all about?

chisomkachy:
https://www.channelstv.com/2025/07/24/tinubu-govt-develops-southern-nigeria-neglects-the-north-says-kwankwaso/