Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communications, Sunday Dare has replied the former Kano State governor, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso on claim that President Bola Tinubu neglected the Northern region.
Recall that Kwankwaso has accused Tinubu at the Kano State Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the 2025 Constitutional Amendment on Thursday of marginalizing the region.
The 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) said, “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.”
In an X post on Friday, Dare said Kwankwaso is wrong and President Tinubu has the “North covered”.
He said, “Senator Kwankwoso. You are wrong. North not neglected. President Tinubu has the North covered. Northern Nigeria not left behind.”
The presidential aide highlighted Tinubu’s 43 Northern interventions covering agriculture, road infrastructure, health, energy and gas, rail and metro, among others, in only two years in charge.
Dare said the president’s presence could be felt in the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Expressway, Sokoto-Badagry Expressway, and Sokoto-Zamfara-Katsina Expressway.
According to him, the president has also provided the $158.15m Agriculture Value Chain (VCN) Programme for nine Northern states, Kolmani Integrated Development Project (Bauchi and Gombe States), and Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) — a six-year World Bank–funded programme to restore 1 million hectares of degraded land and improve climate resilience in Northern Nigeria states.
He further explained that the Tinubu administration has reinvigorated about 1,000 Primary Health Centers (PHCs) in the North, and upgraded many tertiary and secondary health facilities across the region.p