The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has described the position of the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, that President Bola Tinubu’s administration has snubbed the North in terms of development as false.
Afenifere, in a statement issued by its National Organising Secretary, Otunba Kole Omololu, said the southern part of the country has been sidelined for the North in the past decades.
Kwankwaso, during a stakeholders’ dialogue on the 2025 constitutional amendment in Kano, alleged that the North was being sidelined in terms of resources as well as federal projects.
According to the frontline Yoruba group, Kwankwaso’s alarmist rhetoric is not only unfair but also deeply dangerous, as it stokes regional tension and paints a false picture of deliberate southern favouritism.
While disclosing that development is a gradual process, Afenifere stated that Tinubu has not yet reached the halfway mark of his term.
With Afenifere describing the position of Kwankwaso as misleading and deliberately incendiary, the NNPP stalwart stressed that “less than two years into President Tinubu’s administration, Kwankwaso is crying foul.
“Perhaps he is unaware that critical road projects have been initiated and awarded across the North, including the dualisation of the Kano-Maiduguri Road, the Sokoto-Tambuwal-Jega Road, and the Abuja-Keffi-Lafia corridor.
“The Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano, AKK, gas pipeline, neglected by past regimes, is being fast-tracked. Just weeks ago, President Tinubu approved billions for critical infrastructure in Katsina, Borno, and Niger States.
“We must rise above ethnic saboteurs and sectional agitators masquerading as patriots. Let statesmen, not ethnic lords, shape the conversation.”