The 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has launched a scathing attack on President Bola Tinubu’s administration, accusing it of marginalising northern Nigeria by concentrating the nation’s resources in the South.
Speaking on Thursday during the Kano State Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the 2025 Constitutional Amendment, Kwankwaso said the federal government was unfairly directing national funds to one section of the country while leaving the North under‑resourced and neglected.
“A situation where the 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 by the government,” Kwankwaso declared.
“This is the time for the government to convince our people that the government is not just on one side of the country.”
The former Kano State governor further alleged that information available to him suggests that “most of the national budget is now tilting in one direction in this country,” warning that such imbalance could worsen the challenges already facing the northern region.
He lamented that the North is already grappling with insecurity and poverty, largely because of a lack of sufficient resources and the mismanagement of what little it receives.
“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 cautioned.
“That is why we have insecurity, we have poverty, and so on. It is happening here mainly, but like a desert, it would go everywhere.”
Kwankwaso’s comments come amid rising concerns in northern Nigeria over perceived lopsidedness in federal appointments, project siting, and allocation of national resources under the current administration.
