The 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s administration for what he described as the neglect of northern Nigeria and the concentration of national resources on developing the southern part of the country, where the president hails from.
The strongman of Kano politics stated this on Thursday at the Kano State Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the 2025 Constitutional Amendment.
“Let me advise the Federal Government on the distribution of federal resources.
“From the information available to us, it’s like most of the national budget is now tilting in one direction in this country,” he said.
The former Kano State Governor also accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, of lopsided allocation of scarce resources between the two regions of the country.
“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,” he added.
According to him, most roads in the northern region remain in a deplorable condition, whilst the APC government continues to allocate lump budgetary provisions for infrastructural development in the southern region.
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.
