Rabiu Kwankwaso, former Kano State governor and 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Folks’s Celebration (NNPP), has accused the federal authorities of favouring one a part of the nation within the allocation of nationwide sources whereas neglecting different areas, notably the north.
Talking at a Kano stakeholders’ dialogue on the 2025 constitutional modification, Kwankwaso warned that the uneven distribution of nationwide wealth and growth efforts is deepening poverty and insecurity throughout northern Nigeria.
“I consider the problems we face in the present day on this nation, notably on this a part of the nation, should do with the mismanagement of sources by leaders on the nationwide and state ranges, and even at native authorities ranges,” he stated.
The previous governor criticised each elected representatives and political elites, accusing a few of being compromised and failing to advocate for the pursuits of their areas. He alleged that rich people typically bribe legislators to affect price range selections, leading to a skewed distribution of nationwide sources.
“We now have a tilted association by way of useful resource sharing within the nation,” Kwankwaso stated.
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He pointed to what he described as a “lopsided allocation of the nationwide price range,” expressing concern that infrastructure and growth tasks seem concentrated in choose areas to the detriment of others.
Citing private expertise, Kwankwaso narrated how a cancelled flight compelled him to journey by highway from Abuja to Kano—a journey he described as arduous because of the poor state of the roads.
“This can be a highway that was began a few years in the past, proper from the start of APC’s management,” he stated. “Now we hear that there’s a highway from the south to the east being constructed. We assist infrastructure anyplace within the nation, however when authorities takes our sources and dumps them in a single a part of the nation, leaving others behind, I don’t consider that’s the proper factor to do.”
He urged lawmakers to face agency and guarantee equity when deliberating on the constitutional modification course of, arguing that now’s the time for the federal government to indicate that it belongs to each a part of Nigeria.
“That is the time for the federal government to vary—to persuade our those that the federal government is not only on one facet of the nation,” he stated.
