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Nigerian politicians are known for making false statements. In fact, they are ready to make accusations of marginalization, especially when the elections are in order. Most of the time, those accusations are intended to deceive or deceive the Creduloni Nigerians.
The accusations are driven by an agenda hidden by politicians masked by champions of a state or region in order to bend the support of the people before the elections.
The recent affirmation of the former Senator of the Governor of the State of Kano Rabiu Kwankwaso according to which the administration of President Bola Tinubu is given the administration of the North in projects of federal road infrastructures. Senator Kwankwaso himself knows that the accusation is absolutely false, misleading and selfish. The statement lacks facts and substance.
Political leaders should not, for the political opportunity, make inflammatory and false statements capable of undermining the fragile unity of the nation.
Political observers believe that there is an ongoing battle at this time among the politicians in the North to inherit the so -called 12 million votes of Buhari.
The former president Muhammado Buhari deceased is believed to have 12 million dedicated votes who voted for him in all the elections he contested. . Now that it is no longer, some politicians are now placing defenders of northern interest to inherit the elusive votes.
Well, are there still the 12 million votes of Buhari? The sentence of all the progressives of the Congress (APC) has obtained over 5.5 million votes in the 2023 presidential elections attended by the former president Bohari.
This position is not to decrease the crucial role that northern votes played in the victory of security for President Tinubu. In fact, he got more votes from the North than from the South. That’s why it is unfathomable for a thinking that the president expected to neglect the Region.
There is nothing wrong with defending the interest of one’s region. But you have to do it with facts and figures and in a way without creating tensions and disunities in the country.
President Bola Tinubu is a nationalist who has spent several years to build political bridges across the country. It is ridiculous to accuse him of marginalizing any region. President Tinubu remains firmly committed to developing every part of the country with equity, equity and fear of God.
The senator of the Minister of Works Dave Umahi presented incontrovertible facts and figures to support this statement and has challenged anyone who has contrary to road projects to present them publicly.
There are currently four Legacy projects under the Tinubu Administration.
They include the 750 km Lagos-Calabar coastal highway, with 175 km under construction; the 1.068 km Superhighway Sokoto-Badagry, with 378 km in progress in the north; The 465 km trans-Sahara motorway, with 59 km under construction in the state of Ebonyi; And the Akwanga-Jos-Bauchi-Gomba road, measuring 439 km and currently redesigns in rigid flooring.
The SuperHighway Sokot- Badagry passes through Sokoto, Kebbi, Niger, Kwara, Oyo, Ogun and ends in Lagos. Four of these states are the northern region.
The total duration of these Legacy projects, the North represents 52% while the South has 48%. Within the segments already under construction, the North has 756 km in progress, compared to 409 km south. Only the state of Kebbi has 316 km under construction and Sokoto has 240 km in progress. On the contrary, Lagos has only 220 km.
According to the Minister of Works, the simple mention of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway should not do one to ignore the massive work in progress in the North.
Umahi also mentioned the Sokoto-Gusau-Funtua-n a double 275 km road, part of a 750 km corridor managed by four contractors at ₦ 824 billion. There is also the 700 km road of Abuja-Kaduna-Kano, assessed at ₦ 764 billion.
Other projects from the key north, according to the minister, include the 256 km BUA tax credit road that crosses the states of Jigawa, Katsina and Kano; The 156 km Zaria-Hunkuyi road; The northern bypass of Kano 49 km; the V-Kano-Maiduguri section of 110 km; and various tax credit roads for dance in the state of Borno. Based on the tax credit system, the money (tax) that should have been paid to the Federal Government is unfolded by the corporate bodies to build roads chosen by them.
Of the inherited Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Ltd (nnpcl
Tax credit projects, the North has 53% while the South has 47%. Of these, the South -est receives only 4% and the South -ovest of 5%. . Yet President Tinubu did not complain and continued to finance them.
Further projects in the North include the 76 km Malando Road in Kebbi; 250 km from Benue to 9th Mile Road; and the dualization project of 86 km Lokoja-Rena.
In the south of Nigeria, there are also several projects completed and in progress, which include the Lagos-Ibadan highway, the Oyo-Gabomoso-Lorin road and critical repairs on the third mainland, Eko and Carter Bridges.
In the South-East, the ENUGU-HONITSHA road (107 km) is financed by the MTN tax credit system, with an additional stretch of 72 km taken by the CBC, the Enugu-Abakaliki road and the access roads to the second Niger bridge are under construction, together with the 61 km road Lokpanta-Enugu.
In the South-South, the ongoing projects include Eleme-Gonne Road, EKET Bypass, East-West Road Secation 2, The Nembe-Brass Road and Bodo-Bonny Road by Julius Berger.
President Tinubu comes from the South-West and the Minister of Works claims to be under pressure of some people in that region due to the limited challenge of financing of the main roads such as Ibadan-Oyo, Ibadan-Le Ife-Comesa and Ore-Sagamu. In the words of Senator Umahi ”, the Carter bridge is so deformed that it must be demolished.
The third continental bridge is closed in heavy trucks due to underwater defects. “Perhaps the president’s region should also accuse him of marginalize in terms of road projects
The Federal Government has promised to continue financing critical projects regardless of the Region because they are all part of the economic corridor of the nation
Alhaji Abdulsalam Garba is
President, young people of the North for equity justice.
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