Babachir Lawal, former Secretary to the Authorities of the Federation (SGF), says President Bola Tinubu’s administration isn’t just ignoring northern Nigeria in infrastructure growth, however actively dismantling the area’s features.
Talking on Belief TV’s Sunday Politics, Lawal stated the north has been successfully reduce off from ongoing federal tasks, echoing comparable claims by former Kano governor Rabiu Kwankwaso.
“There isn’t any infrastructure work happening at any stage within the north,” Lawal stated. “No tasks by any means. Possibly of their creativeness, or within the spirit—however we don’t see it.”
Kwankwaso had final week accused the Tinubu administration of marginalising the north in nationwide infrastructure funding. Lawal backed that declare, noting that each he and Kwankwaso—like Minister of Works David Umahi—are engineers who “see bodily issues otherwise.”
“Kwankwaso is aware of what he’s speaking about,” Lawal stated. “Each wise, sincere Nigerian will know that the north is being marginalised.”
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He went additional, accusing the Tinubu administration of operating an anti-North agenda.
“Every part this authorities does is designed to destroy the north,” he stated. “The sense we get as Northerners is that if this authorities can destroy what it inherited, they may do it willingly.”
Lawal, a former stalwart of the All Progressives Congress (APC), questioned the celebration’s prospects within the north forward of the subsequent elections.
“Which elected official, a northerner, will go into the marketing campaign on the platform of the APC on this coming election? No one,” he stated. “Except they be a part of ADC, they won’t win—just because they belong to the harmful celebration.”
His feedback come amid rising regional tensions over the Tinubu administration’s undertaking distribution.
At a constitutional stakeholders’ discussion board in Kano final week, Kwankwaso had warned that worsening poverty and insecurity within the north had been being worsened by skewed useful resource allocation.
Responding, Works Minister Umahi rejected the claims as “deceptive,” saying 52 p.c of the whole size of Tinubu’s prime 4 street tasks lies within the north. He particularly cited the 756 km stretch of the Sokoto–Badagry superhighway operating by means of the area.
Presidential adviser Sunday Dare additionally dismissed the marginalisation narrative, itemizing over 40 federal programmes at the moment ongoing or sustained in northern Nigeria. He referred to as the criticisms “politically motivated.”
