Chairman of the Northern Elders
Forum, NEF, Dr. Paul Unongo, and a Second Republic lawmaker, Junaid Mohammed
have dismissed the impression that President Muhammadu Buhari was ‘favouring
the North’.
They said such statements were
capable of breeding disunity.
Unongo, a Second Republic
minister of steel, said the Buhari administration has been fair to all the six
geo-political zones of the country.
He noted that the zones still
crying marginalisation are those agitating for disintegration, particularly the
South-East.
The NEF chairman told ThisDay,
“It is not possible to say that Buhari is favouring the North to the detriment
of other regions.
“The North occupies over 80 per
cent of the total landmass of Nigeria and it has the population as well. If
everything was given to the North proportionate to its size and population, it
wouldn’t be so backward the way it is today.”
On his part, Mohammed, said those
saying that Buhari is president of the North and not the president of Nigeria,
should go to hell.
He said, “I believe in assessing
a man, particularly a politician like Buhari, you assess him not only on what
he says, but on what he does.
“If you look at the cabinet, it
is clear that most of the important assignments (portfolios) went to the South,
particularly the South-West. They have Finance, Health, Power/Works/Housing and
Communication.
“So, for anybody who is rational,
that statement made about Buhari asking World Bank to concentrate its
activities in the North was false.
“In fact, if you move ahead and
you assess his words and deeds, you will find out that Buhari hasn’t done
anything to advance the interest of the North in any way whatsoever.
“The infrastructure projects that
have been carried out in the last two and half years are the Lagos/Ibadan
Expressway; the Second Niger Bridge at Asaba; the ongoing East/West Road; the
rail project from Lagos to Calabar. Go and check them out.
“These are the key projects of
this administration and none of them is in the North.
“For those who are using the
mischievous report to say that Buhari is now president of the North should go
to hell.
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Junaid Mohammed, you will be first in hell before anybody else.
ReplyDeleteIs that not a hate speech?
ReplyDeleteUnongo's a liar with his claim on the North occupying more than 80% of land mass with corresponding population. The land mass is actually high, but,not up to his calculation. As for the population, he goofed first class. Unongo's still deceiving Nigerians with the crooked census of the 60s whereby, they claimed Northern Nigeria is more populated than the Southern Nigeria. I wonder when all these lies will stop. Travel to the North,you'll notice a land mass without habitations.
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