Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin has downplayed claims of intentional marginalisation and expressed confidence in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s responsiveness to regional concerns, characterising the Southeast’s exclusion from recent Renewed Hope development projects as likely an oversight that will be corrected.
Jibrin brushed off claims of systematic exclusion during an interview with NASSTV. “I believe it’s most likely an omission. We must not go to that extent. It’s likely an oversight on the part of those who are responsible for doing this, you know. Therefore, there’s no use in engaging in a protracted argument,” he said.
The deputy president of the Senate was hopeful that the error would be quickly fixed. “It might be an omission; we have alerted the relevant authorities, and they will fix it. Our president listens, cares, and is someone we can trust. In other words, no one is flawless. It might have been an oversight, and his actions now serve as a wake-up call. We’ve sent the message, and they’ve received it and will fix it,” he stated.
Additionally, Kebbi State Senator Adamu Aliero cautioned against drawing hasty judgements regarding the allocation pattern. He argued that the Renewed Hope project intends to develop the entire nation, eventually including the Southeast, and reminded colleagues that it covers a variety of sectors, including power and road infrastructure.
Aliero insisted that it is still too soon to declare that marginalisation has taken place and advised senators to hold off on making decisions until the full picture is known.
Enugu West Senator Osita Ngwu was adamantly opposed to calling the exclusion a straightforward error. Given the Southeast’s history of neglect, he expressed concern that the exclusion represents a serious oversight and asked when the region would ever receive significant allocations comparable to other regions.
Ngwu pointed to the abandoned Ivo Dam as proof of continued disregard, pointing out that despite initial funding, the project has been unfinished for more than 12 years.
In support of calls for Southeast inclusion, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu proposed that Senate resolutions include other dams in the area. He maintained that although the federal government does not take advantage of dam resources that could aid farmers in boosting agricultural output, Abia State produces more rice than Ebonyi State.
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What transpired in the green chambers to the southeast omission in their budget of developmental scheme was an act of deliberate under the believe that it is a conquer territory due to their inability to unity.
How could one explain to a nation where different ethnicity is been put together as one entity and their should be a developmental structure the one will be omitted in the eyes of the law for rebirthing which will be observed for considering. This shows that the present APC government did not see the southeast as part of the government as can control it from a distance if only the north and west can collaborate in commonly. This can only be done because the southeast are not united are of them seeing their selves as leaders of various aims of the government. But one thing must disappoint this APC Tinubu government which I am very such of except otherwise. Nigeria is blessed with all natural endowment by her citizenry are finding it difficult to barely have a day meal not to talk of those with larger family which has attributed to increased prostitution and felony. In the “70’s to “80’s when I was growing up as a little child compared to PDP regime down to APC administration one will totally say the APC government has been the worst of all time precisely this current Bola Ahmed Tinubu governance which cannot be considered as governance in any form explicitly. Nigeria is one amongst the African countries that has all natural endowment or resources yet her citizenry are finding life difficult, fuel is on high side, electricity difficult to see, farmers cannot go to their farms, life are not safe, people dies on daily basis, foods are terrible to get to eat, employments are nowhere to found, entrepreneurs are depleting due to high cost of taxation, vat is high, banking system on high taxes to mentioned but a few.
If through Tinubu administration means well to Nigerians they concentrate on the well-being of its citizenry now and stop planning for 2027 election which is still far from now. The electoral reform will determine if thoroughly Nigeria has independent national electoral commission (INEC) as an emperor since our judiciary system has failed us. Tinubu, Akpabio and Wike now remains the decisive factors of nigerians future which is over two hundred million populace what a shameful society.
What transpired in the green chambers was a typical mindset to the southeast it has been taken for a known to the north and west that the southeast is a conquer territory, but let me state here unequivocally that the coalition which is being head by RT. Amaechi and other will gratefully create the difference Nigerians has been waiting for these years. I have never seen a party system who does not care for the people in their various units, ward, local government excos and the state body but wanting to win election by magic we are waiting with the hunger in us so that will vote you and die to be buried. Let the coalition headed by RT. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and others come up with their transformation system of governance the you people will know the adage that says an hungry man is angry man and the angry man is the devil’s workshop. But in this case we will choose our destiny in our hands by making the right decision in following the Amaechi led group and allow those with impunity to continue their life of dictatorship and impostor life style.
Nigeria does not have good health facilities where patients can be comfortably treated without having complicated surgery or death, since from 1969 No good roads, No stable energy, No portable water for consumption No good educational system rather we have lost the past glory left with us by the colony. Civil servants are renting houses in exorbitant rate whereas it wasn’t like that in the 70-80’s we have a stationed place call police quarters, civil servants quarters Navy quarters teachers quarters doctors quarters, judges quarters state lawyers quarters etc and these are the things the elected governor of river state Siminalayi Fubara is trying to put in place to revamp the past glory of the state Tinubu in its own magnanimity suspended him from his own person law which came as shock to the national Assembly and house of representative yet they went behind and constituted it with a voice vote and collected their parcel saying it was anonymously agreed what a disgrace. This government lacks the moral justification to run an administrative system like a country Nigeria, they should know power is transit which brought them to the governing council as such when it is time they should be ready to transfer power to whom so ever nigerians choose as their eligible candidate that is the transition of power we are all one Nigeria