{"id":171658,"date":"2025-07-29T12:09:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/kwankwaso-was-right-no-visible-development-in-north"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:14:17","slug":"kwankwaso-was-right-no-visible-development-in-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kwankwaso-was-right-no-visible-development-in-north","title":{"rendered":"Kwankwaso Was Right No Visible Development in North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has thrown support behind ex- Kano governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who recently criticized the administration of President Bola Tinubu over the alleged marginalization of northern Nigeria in federal infrastructure development.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Sunday Politics, a Trust TV programme, Lawal decried the absence of visible federal projects in the region.<\/p>\n<p>He said Kwankwaso was right, and any contradictory statement is a figment of the imagination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo projects are going on\u2014at least they are not visible to the eye. Maybe in their imagination, maybe in the spirit\u2014but we don\u2019t see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Babachir Lawal added that: \u201cWe don\u2019t see any construction work. We don\u2019t see any infrastructure going on. No federal government project whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said as an expert, Kwankwaso was right to accuse the government as he knows what he was talking about.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKwankwaso, remember, is an engineer too\u2014so he, like me, like David Umahi, who\u2019s an engineer too, the way we see things \u2014 physical things\u2014the way we see them differently,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, Kwankwaso knows what he\u2019s talking about. And it doesn\u2019t need to be Kwankwaso to say what he said. Every sensible \u2013 honest Nigerian will know that the north is being marginalized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also went ahead to accuse the Tinubu administration of not only neglecting the north but also undoing some of the region\u2019s hard-won gains.<\/p>\n<p>Babachir Lawal believes this would make the APC lose it\u2019s grip on the North ahead of the general polls.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government in it\u2019s earlier response has accused Kwankwaso of trying to mislead the north.<\/p>\n<p>It said there\u2019s massive infrastructure being built in the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has thrown support behind ex- Kano governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who recently criticized the administration of President Bola Tinubu over the alleged marginalization of northern Nigeria in federal infrastructure development. Speaking on Sunday Politics, a Trust TV programme, Lawal decried the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":171657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[7446,750,2021,254,1712],"class_list":["post-171658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-babachir-lawal","tag-development","tag-kwankwaso","tag-nigeria","tag-north"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kwankwaso Was Right No Visible Development in North - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has thrown support behind ex- Kano governor, ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kwankwaso-was-right-no-visible-development-in-north\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kwankwaso Was Right No Visible Development in North\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has thrown support behind ex- Kano governor, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kwankwaso-was-right-no-visible-development-in-north\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-29T11:09:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-29T12:14:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753778776.685759.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"719\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kwankwaso-was-right-no-visible-development-in-north#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kwankwaso-was-right-no-visible-development-in-north\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kwankwaso Was Right No Visible Development in North\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-29T11:09:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-29T12:14:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kwankwaso-was-right-no-visible-development-in-north\"},\"wordCount\":306,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kwankwaso-was-right-no-visible-development-in-north#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1753778776.685759.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Babachir Lawal\",\"development\",\"Kwankwaso\",\"Nigeria\",\"North\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kwankwaso-was-right-no-visible-development-in-north#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kwankwaso-was-right-no-visible-development-in-north\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kwankwaso-was-right-no-visible-development-in-north\",\"name\":\"Kwankwaso Was Right No Visible Development in North - 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