The Presidency has mentioned the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, is unsuitable to have claimed that the north has been uncared for by the Bola Tinubu-led administration.
Kwankwaso had alleged whereas talking at Coronation Hall, Kano Government House, on Thursday, throughout a stakeholders’ engagement assembly, that there was no equitable distribution of sources by the Federal Government.
He had mentioned: “Let me advise the Federal Government on the distribution of federal resources. From the information available to us, it is like most of the national budget is now tilting in one direction in this country,” he mentioned.
“Let me advise those that are struggling by all means to take every little thing to do not forget that among the points that we now have on this a part of the nation right this moment should do with lack of sufficient sources and mismanagement of the little that is available 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.”
But in an in depth rebuttal shared on his X deal with, Special Adviser, Media & Public Communication to the President, Sunday Dare wrote, “Senator Kwankwaso. You are wrong. North not neglected. President Tinubu has the north covered. Northern Nigeria not left behind.”
He then listed initiatives and programmes being executed by the administration within the north throughout totally different sectors.
Some of the initiatives listed by Dare are the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Expressway, the Sokoto-Badagry Expressway, the $158.15m Agriculture Value Chain (VCN) Programme for 9 northern states and the Kolmani Integrated Development Project for Bauchi and Gombe States.
He additionally listed the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Kaduna (North West), Federal Teaching Hospital, Katsina (North West), the University of Jos Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau (North Central), the Reference Hospital, Kaduna (North West) and the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto (North West) as examples of initiatives beneath the Tinubu administration.
Read Dare’s full submit beneath:
SENATOR KWANKWOSO. YOU ARE WRONG. NORTH NOT NEGLECTED.
PRESIDENT TINUBU HAS THE NORTH COVERED
NORTHERN NIGERIA NOT LEFT BEHIND.
SOME SAMPLERS/ EVIDENCE
SOME Federal Government Projects throughout Northern Nigeria Under President Tinubu’s Administration
AGRICULTURE
1. $158.15m Agriculture Value Chain (VCN) Programme for 9 Northern states
2. Kolmani Integrated Development Project (Bauchi and Gombe States)
3. Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) — a six-year World Bank–funded programme to revive 1 million hectares of degraded land and enhance local weather resilience in Northern Nigeria states
4. Kano River Project (irrigation scheme) — large-scale built-in irrigation growth in Kano State, commissioned in 2023 and operational beneath the present administration
HEALTH
5. Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Kaduna (North West)
6. Federal Teaching Hospital, Katsina (North West)
7. University of Jos Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau (North Central)
8. Reference Hospital, Kaduna (North West)
9. Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto (North West)
10. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi (North East)
11. Harmony Advanced Diagnostic Centre Complex, Ilorin, Kwara (North Central)
12. Federal Medical Centre, Nguru, Yobe (North East)
13. Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Plateau (North Central) — extra enlargement
14. Reinvigoration of about 1,000 Primary Health Centers, PHCS within the North
ROADS AND HIGHWAYS
15. Kano–Kongolam Road (Section II: Kano–Kanwar–Danja–Hadejia)
16. Yakasai–Zalli Road
17. 1,068 km Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway (Northern part together with Sokoto and Kebbi)
18. 258 km, 3-lane Carriageway (Section 2, Phase 2A: CH 120+000–CH 378+000) in Gulumbe, Kebbi State
19. Abuja–Kaduna–Zaria–Kano Dual Carriageway
20. Biu–Kangiwa–Kamba–Gaya–Niger Republic Road (30 km section)
21. Malando–Garin Baka–Ngaski–Wara Road (CH.0+000 – CH.79+586)
22. Koko–Besse–Zaria–Kala Road
23. Abuja–Kaduna–Kano Highway (375 km)
24. Repair of the Gamboru Bridge (Gamboru–Ngala–Kala–Balde Road in Borno State)
25. Expansion of Mararaba–Keffi Road (43.65 km)
26. Construction of Lafia Bypass Road (Nasarawa State)
27. Kano–Maiduguri Dual Carriageway
28. Adamawa–Taraba Single Carriageway
29. Adamawa–Borno Single Carriageway
30. Kaduna–Jos Road (Single Carriageway)
31. Zaria–Funtua–Gusau–Sokoto Road (Dual Carriageway)
32. Zaria–Hunkuyi–Daya Road (Sections I, II & III – 152.67 km) — rehabilitation venture in Kaduna and Kano States
33. Reconstruction of Dikwa–Gamboru–Ngala Road (49.55 km) — strategic hall reconstruction in Borno State
ENERGY AND GAS
34. Ajaokuta–Kaduna–Kano Gas Pipeline (AKK) (614 km)
35. Gwagwalada Power Plant (FCT, Abuja – related with AKK pipeline)
36. ABIBA Solar Power Station, Kaduna (50 MW) — deliberate solar energy plant to spice up renewable vitality capability in Kaduna State
RAIL AND METRO
37. Kaduna–Kano Rail Line (203 km, a part of Lagos-Kano Rail Project)
38. Kano–Maradi Rail Line (285 km, linking Kano, Jigawa, Katsina to Maradi in Niger Republic)
39. Kaduna Light Rail System — ₦100 billion finances allocation to develop gentle rail public transport in Kaduna
40. Abuja Metro Line Rehabilitation (Abuja Light Rail)
WATERWAYS & TRADE CORRIDORS
41. Trans-Sahara Trade Route — infrastructure growth to attach commerce routes from Calabar via Nasarawa and Abuja in direction of Northern Nigeria and past
NATIONAL PROGRAMMES & INSTITUTIONS
42. National Agency for the Great Green Wall (NAGGW) — renewed mandate and management for desertification fight in Northern Nigeria
43. Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP) — ongoing erosion management and watershed infrastructure growth within the North.
All of those in solely two years by President Tinubu
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