Rabiu Kwankwaso, former Governor of Kano State, has accused President Bola Tinubu of neglecting the Northern region of Nigeria.
Kwankwaso made the accusation on Thursday during a Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the 2025 Constitutional Amendment organised by the Kano State Government.
The 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) said he was concerned by the developmental challenges in Northern Nigeria, accusing President Tinubu of a lopsided distribution of the commonwealth in the country.
Kwankwaso lamented that the North keeps on struggling with limited resources, while he berated the Federal Government, under the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for continuously allocating substantial resources to developmental projects in the Southern region of Nigeria.
“From the information available to us, it’s like most of the national budget is now tilting in one direction in this country,” Kwankwaso said.
“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.
“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 called on the Tinubu government to improve and ensure the equitable distribution of scarce resources for the development of all parts of the country.
