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Presidency Refutes Kwankwaso’s Claim of Northern Neglect
NORTHERN NIGERIA, JUL 25 – The Presidency detailed projects worth over $158 million across Northern Nigeria in agriculture, energy, health, and infrastructure to counter claims of regional neglect.
- During the 2025 constitutional amendment event in Kano, Kwankwaso said that national resources are increasingly tilted south, deepening poverty and insecurity in Northern Nigeria.
- The Presidency rejected the allegations of Northern neglect, listing numerous projects in Northern Nigeria to demonstrate President Bola Tinubu’s administration's commitment.
- The Special Adviser listed flagship programmes and major road projects, naming the $158.15 million Agriculture Value Chain programme and key infrastructure like the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Expressway.
- Reacting in an X post on Friday, Sunday Dare challenged Kwankwaso’s remarks and said `the North isn’t neglected.`
- The administration outlined a full roster of federal initiatives, and Sunday Dare emphasized these achievements within just two years under President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
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Presidency counters Kwankwaso over north neglect claim
The Presidency has responded to claims by a former Kano State Governor, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, that President Bola Tinubu's government has neglected the North in terms of developmental projects. Sunday Dare, the President's Special Adviser on Media and Communication, faulted Kwankwaso's claim in a statement posted on his X account on Friday, July 25, 2025. Speaking at the Kano State Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the 2025 Constitutional Amendment i…
Presidency replies Kwankwaso over claim Tinubu favours South in infrastructure development
The Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Public Communication, Sunday Dare, said Mr Kwankwaso got it wrong in his submissions while listing the ongoing developmental projects and programmes in the last two years by President Tinubu. The post Presidency replies Kwankwaso over claim Tinubu favours South in infrastructure development appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.
‘North not neglected’, Presidency counters Kwankwaso’s...
The Presidency has rejected allegations by the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in the 2023 general elections, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, that President Bola Tinubu’s administration has sidelined the North. Kwankwaso, speaking at a stakeholders’ dialogue on the 2025 constitutional amendment in Kano on Thursday, criticised what he described as the growing concentration of national resources in the South—warning th…
Presidency Refutes Kwankwaso’s Claim Of Northern Neglect - News Agency Of Nigeria
Presidency refutes Kwankwaso’s claim of northern neglect 9 total views todayBy Muhyideen Jimoh The Presidency has dismissed Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso’s claim that President Bola Tinubu’s administration is neglecting Northern Nigeria in terms of infrastructural development. Mr Sunday Dare, Special Adviser on Media and Public Communication to the President, said this via his official X handle on Friday. The News Agency […] News Agency of Nigeria
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