The claim that Northern Nigeria has been left behind in the President Bola Tinubu led administration has been dismissed as incorrect by the Presidency.
The dismissal follows comment by Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso that the North has not been experiencing infrastructure development since the Tinubu led administration. His comment was made during a stakeholders’ dialogue on the 2025 constitutional amendment in Kano on Thursday.
In comparison to the roads in the southern region of the country, the former governor of Kano State bemoaned the terrible condition of the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano motorway, calling travel on it “hell.”
“Yesterday, I was to come by air; unfortunately, my airline decided to shift our take-off from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. I had to come by road. From Abuja to Kaduna to Kano was hell, a terrible, very bad road. And this is a road that was started many years ago, right from the beginning of the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Now we are told that there is a road from the South to the East,” he said.
The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare, who responded in a post on X on Friday, disputed the accusations, stating that President Tinubu has shown a clear commitment to the development of the north by implementing a number of social intervention and infrastructural projects.
Dare said, “The claim that Northern Nigeria has been left behind is incorrect. The Tinubu administration has initiated and continued several landmark projects in the North, covering roads, agriculture, healthcare, and energy,” .
Among others, he cited the ongoing mega road projects such as the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Expressway, Sokoto-Badagry Expressway, and the Sokoto-Zamfara-Katsina Road.
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He emphasised that, despite Kwankwaso’s accusations of neglect, President Tinubu’s administration had set the groundwork for the region’s long-term growth in just two years.
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