Nigeria: Presidency Faults Kwankwaso’s Claim, Says North No longer Sidelined

The Presidency has strongly rejected accusations by 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Celebration (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso that President Bola Tinubu’s administration has marginalised Northern Nigeria in the distribution of national sources.

LEADERSHIP experiences Kwankwaso made the feedback on Thursday for the length of a stakeholders’ dialogue on the 2025 constitutional amendment, held in Kano.

The feeble Kano Say governor accused the federal authorities of concentrating kind efforts in the southern a part of the nation whereas leaving the North in a state of infrastructural decay.

Responding on Friday through his official X address, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Dialog, Sunday Dare, described Kwankwaso’s remarks as incorrect.

“Senator Kwankwaso, you are wrong. North not neglected. President Tinubu has the North covered.”

Dare went on to specialize in a large quantity of ongoing initiatives and programmes all the best intention through a quantity of sectors in Northern Nigeria below the Tinubu administration.

He well-known that the federal authorities is actively working on major motorway and motorway initiatives in the plot, including the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano twin carriageway, Kano-Maiduguri parkway, the Sokoto-Badagry superhighway, and roads connecting Adamawa, Taraba, Kaduna, and Jos, among others.

In the well being sector, Dare pointed to upgrades and expansions at rather a lot of federal medical institutions, comparable to the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Clinical institution in Zaria, the Federal Teaching Clinical institution in Katsina, and the University of Jos Teaching Clinical institution.

He also referenced the revitalisation of over 1,000 Main Health Centres in Northern communities to enhance derive admission to to authentic healthcare.

On agriculture, he referenced the $158.15 million Agriculture Label Chain programme being utilized in 9 Northern states, the Kolmani Built-in Pattern Mission in Bauchi and Gombe States, and the Kano River irrigation venture. Furthermore, he mentioned the Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) programme, a World Bank-funded initiative geared toward restoring degraded land and boosting native climate resilience all the best intention throughout the North.

Dare also outlined fundamental investments in vitality and transport infrastructure.

These embody the 614-kilometre Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline, the Gwagwalada Power Plant in the FCT, and the deliberate ABIBA Solar Power Region in Kaduna.

On rail and metropolis mobility, he referenced the Kaduna-Kano rail line, the Kano-Maradi rail line, and the ₦100 billion Kaduna Light Rail venture, to boot as the rehabilitation of the Abuja metroline.

The Presidency also highlighted national environmental and substitute corridor programmes, comparable to the actions of the National Agency for the Gigantic Green Wall (NAGGW), geared toward combating desertification in the North, and the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Administration Mission (NEWMAP), which is addressing land degradation.

“All of these in only two years by President Tinubu,” Dare maintained.