A northern elder statesman and
Second Republic lawmaker, Junaid Muhammed, has challenged anyone to show a
project sited in northern Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari since he came
into power in 2015.
Muhammed was reacting to the
controversy currently trailing the alleged statement credited to President
Buhari where he directed the World Bank to focus its project on northern
Nigeria.
Muhammed noted that what Buhari
was reported to have said was at variance with what he had been doing in
government.
Muhammed said, “If Buhari said so
categorically, it was a misstatement. If he had said the World Bank should
concentrate projects in the region, (then) I have my doubts. Since he came to
power as President, there is no single important project he has sited in the
North.
“Nothing has been done in the
North. I challenge anyone to tell me any project specifically directed to the
North.
“We should also be careful about
what these international organisations tell us, because they are not
particularly friends of this country. If Buhari said the international agencies
should concentrate assistance on the North-East, I would support that because
that region has been the poorest and least developed, even before the Boko Haram
insurgency.”
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