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A former Special Adviser to former Kano State Governor, Salihu, has insisted that yesterday's Federal Executive Council meeting was a "South West FEC meeting".

Salihu who posted on X has been a constant critic of the alleged lopsided infrastructural raise and allocations to the South West, especially Lagos, the President's home state.

The FEC yesterday approved the following projects....

Yesterday, the FEC approved several fresh and revised road project contracts:

1. Sokoto–Badagry Coastal Superhighway Section 3
163 km (Badagry → Ogun-Oyo border)
₦553 billion (₦3.39 bn/km, full concrete)

2. Ota–Idiroko Section I + Flyover
14 km road + 509 m flyover, Ogun
₦98 bn (road) + ₦23 bn (flyover) = ₦121 billion total

3. Ijebu Igbo–Etapa–Owoyen Road
37 km (Ogun-Oyo link, +7 km added)
₦53 billion (from ₦13 bn original)
307% increase, now full concrete with upgraded base.

4. Lagos–Ibadan Expressway Phase II Section II
Fresh award: ₦43.73 billion
Includes underpasses, ramps, side roads.

5. Ilorin–Omu Aran–Egba Road Phase I
31 km (out of 207 km), Kwara
₦43 billion

6. Wasasa–Turunku–Mararaba Phase II
42 km, Kaduna
₦30.23 billion
Continues earlier 7.8 km section.

7. Enugu–Onitsha Road Phase I
35 km (OP Junction → Anambra border)
₦28.47 billion total (₦7 bn balance pending).

8. Mushin–NNPC–Apapa–Oshodi Dualisation
14.4 km, Lagos ports access
₦19.09 billion (up from ₦11 bn).

9. East–West Road (restructured)
PH–Warri axis + 3 flyovers + 2 bridges
Inherited ₦156 billion package
Two new flyovers (Abuloma & Refinery)

Salihu's reply

Another South West FEC meeting held yday. Out of the total amount of N1Trillion approved:

South West: ₦789billion (75%)
South South: ₦156billion (14%)
North Central: ₦43billion (4%)
North West: ₦30billion (2%)
South East: ₦28billion (2%)
North East: ₦0billion (0%)

https://x.com/dawisu/status/1986748878272811049?t=TKIVmo3YLVCn4H4jXUBxEQ&s=19

This is getting very interesting, does anyone have an idea of how lopsided countries end up. I saw a whole North East scoring 0 and south east scoring less than 10% even North West is less than the average of 17%. No region got 15% aside SW.

The breakdown is quite revealing.

You can’t be ruling Nigeria like a poutry farm and expect a smooth ride.. Tinubu is deceiving himself, and he knows that

And they will borrow money and use 75% to do their own region and expect other parts of the nation to pay the loan back


Do these people think others are just daft ?

Interesting time ahead.

Ganduje is just waiting for PBAT to sign RMK before he will unleash the dragon.

Bros Fergie001 what do u think ?

Pathetic as Usual. Why are these injustice keep on going? Baba tinubu why?

Was the north not part of the gang whoinstalled tinubu there? Why are they crying now? When buhari their brother was there, did he not do something similar?

What do the north really want?
They should go sit one side, bcuz dem go cry tire.

Yet they keep saying it's one Nigeria. How do u expect patriotism in this kind of brazen selfishness?

Nigerians Presidency should simply be rotational (turn-by-turn)

Because every President especially Buhari and now The Chief Bigot President Tinubu channels the nation’s resources including borrowed funds to his region and state at the detriment of other regions.

So if it’s rotational then each region will calmly wait to take their own pound of flash from the national cake.

Buhari started this nonsense. Now, frog-eye daddy is doing same.

Country don tire person

odinga1of:
Interesting time ahead.

Ganduje is just waiting for PBAT to sign RMK before he will unleash the dragon.

Bros Fergie.001 what do u think ?

Ganduje cannot do anything, he has been tamed. Infact, the choice to move into APC or not is in RMK's hands..
Between Ganduje & RMK today, who will deliver Kano?

Who laid the foundation for this madness and what did this man say then? When we tell people that evil begets evil and that when you feed evil it would one day consume you this is what we mean.
When. Buhari was busy facing everything to the north what did they say then?

Fake breakdown. When did Sokoto become a part of south west?
Sokoto-Badagry expressway is the larger fraction of the funds.

Next time you people should support SW man for president again.

People that have A1 in tribalism.

If you're not tribalist enough they will call you fake yoruba.

They don't like or rate Obasanjo because he is a nationalist

Government of the west for the west..how will west develop without federal patronage. When they compare themselves spoofed with eastern developing wby itself i laugh

themanderon:
Who laid the foundation for this madness and what did this man say then? When we tell people that evil begets evil and that when you feed evil it would one day consume you this is what we mean.
When. Buhari was busy facing everything to the north what did they say then?

Didn't the same SW support Buhari when he was at it?

Tinubu is free to do whatever he likes and let his tribes men keep hailing him, karma is a bitch. Others will get their turn one day and we shouldn't forget that every actions or inaction today is in the internet. It shall be turn by turn eroding the existence of this country.

Oh Tinubu has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that he is the premier of the south west region and the level of negligence and marginalization of the south east, from both Buhari and Tinubu is unprecedented and this president of a 'disgraced nation', want others to be patriotic inspite of his obvious tribalism and nepotism.May be we need a Trump to make a state on tribalism in Nigeria before they will sit up.It is obvious that APC as a party has an agenda against the south east,we listened to a leak tape then,allegedly between governor Amuson and a northern colleague on their plans against ndigbo and they denied it but it is now becoming clearer,no wonder Nnamdi Kanu is held incommunicado!

Shawarmagirl:
Yorubas will be shouting 'IT IS THE TURN OF THE SOUTH'. But in reality, all projects goes to South West.

The North should shut up and face their front. When Buhari was doing it, they accepted it and throw blind eyes just as South West accept it now and throw blind eyes. Another President from another region will eventually emerge and the Yoruba will come and wail as the North is Wailing now.

You spoke the absolute truth. Tinubu is showing everyone that nobody get monopoly of bigotry we self Sabi do nepotism

Evercurious:
Didn't the same SW support Buhari when he was at it?

Because they knew their turn was coming. It will surely go round.

Interesting. Govt of Nigeria by the SW for the SW.

Despite being no fan of Tinubu, I am really happy that he is beating them at the game their late demigod Buhari started.

Let them go and hug transformer. People with born-to-rule-without-responsibility mentality.

If it gives anybody comfort though, just know that these approvals are on paper only and the funds would be largely shared amongst our overfed oligarchs. For perspective, does anyone know how many billions of US dollars that have been sunk into the Lagos Ibadan expressway alone, a largely 2 lane highway of less than 100miles that we have not been able to complete in about 20 years?

But not to pay mind to the northern tear-bearers who are always wanting more money, more power, more more more. Imagine if the names of the alleged coup plotters were Southerners, not to mention them being South-Easterners, the whole north would have been on fire 🔥🔥 by now.

And yet, despite the heavy government spending in the north over the centuries by successive administrations, there is no commensurate evidence in the quality of life of our northern brothers.

Open sepulchers all of them.

2 percent to south east and north west, It’s alright

Dem don transfer sokoto to South West?

When he is being picked up now, he will be apologizing

To tell you guys how low these people are, when you talk they will reference Buhari time. The question is couldn't you people have done things differently and say no to Buhari kind of nepotism? But no, you must retaliate the evil.

The bulk of the Sokoto-Badagry expressway lies within the North.

This is one meeting. It's wise to look at all the approved/ongoing projects for proper perspective.

PMB stopped Ibadan - Abuja rail line and the SE line in favor of Kano- Maradi rail line. He favored the North more in every way.