A former Kano State Governor and 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, has criticized the administration of President Bola Tinubu, over what he described as the lopsided distribution of national resources.
Speaking on Thursday at the Kano State Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the 2025 Constitutional Amendment, Kwankwaso stated that federal resources have largely been directed toward developing the southern region, while the north is being neglected.
“Let me advise the federal government on the distribution of federal resources. From the information available to us, it is like most of the national budget is now tilting in one direction in this country.”
“Let me advise those who are struggling by all means to take everything to remember that 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,” he added.
“Yesterday, I was to come by air, but unfortunately, my airline decided to shift our takeoff from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. I had to come by road. Abuja to Kaduna to Kano was hell; terrible, very bad road. This is a road they started many years ago, right from the beginning of the leadership of the APC.”
“Now, we are told that there is a road from the South to the East. We support infrastructure anywhere in this country and any other thing that is good for the masses, but a situation where government is taking our resources and dumping it in one part of the country, and other parts of the country are left just like that, I don’t believe that is the right thing to do,” Kwankwaso said.
Calling for fairness and equity, the former senator urged the federal government to demonstrate a commitment to fair governance and advocated for a balanced allocation of resources that would benefit every region of the country.
