Tinubu’s ‘Neglect’ Fueling Insecurity, Poverty in the North – Kwankwaso

Rabiu Kwankwaso has accused President Tinubu’s government of “neglect” and unfairly favouring the South in the national budget.

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 the southern part of the country, where the president is from.

Speaking on Thursday at the Kano State Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the 2025 Constitutional Amendment, Kwankwaso stated, “From the information available to us, it’s like most of the national budget is now tilting in one direction in this country.”

The former Kano State Governor also accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of “lopsided allocation of scarce resources” between the northern and southern regions.

He warned, “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.”

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Kwankwaso pointed out that many roads in the northern region remain in “deplorable condition,” while the APC government continues to allocate large budget provisions for infrastructural development in the south.

He urged the Tinubu administration to “change for the better” and ensure “equitable distribution of scarce resources for the development of all parts of the country.”