Presidency refutes Kwankwaso’s claim of Northern neglect

The Presidency has dismissed claims by former Kano State governor and NNPP chieftain, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, that President Bola Tinubu’s administration is marginalising Northern Nigeria in terms of infrastructural development.

Kwankwaso had alleged during a stakeholders’ dialogue in Kano on Thursday that the federal government was concentrating development in the South at the expense of the North. In response, Presidential spokesman Sunday Dare, in a post on his X handle, said Kwankwaso’s claims were “wrong,” asserting that the North is not being neglected.

Dare highlighted several major projects underway in the region, including the Abuja–Kaduna–Zaria–Kano dual carriageway, Sokoto–Badagry…