Nigeria will rise again – Gov Sani

From:Femi Oyelola Kaduna

Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani has assured that the Northern Nigeria region will soon overcome the current Security and socio-economic challenges bedeviling it.
He gave the assurance when he received the newly elected leadership of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) on a courtesy visit at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim House yesterday.
According to him, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration is doing its best to salvage the situation, noting that, the Federal government has been giving uncommon support to state governments in the North to address their challenges.
Gov Sani who fumed over the narrative that President Tinubu is against the North, stressed that it is false, absurd, and unbecoming.
He stressed that it is the handiwork of elements who are experts in political manipulation, adding that they are only interested in feathering their political nests, not the development of Northern Nigeria.
Gov Sani explained that in 2022, the Federal Government of Nigeria through the National Bureau of Statistics launched its most extensive measure of multidimensional poverty.
“The survey revealed that 63% of persons living in Nigeria (that is about 133 million people) are multidimensionally poor. 65% of the poor (that is 86 million people) live in the North, while 35% (nearly 47 million) live in the South.
“The North is not faring any better in the area of Education. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) puts the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria at 18.3 million. Out of this outrageous number of out-of-school children, about 70% are in the North.
“This is quite disturbing and must worry all of us who still care for the North and Nigeria in general.
“Insecurity in the North has retarded developments in the critical sectors as a lot of Farmers cannot access their farms.
“Food insecurity now confronts us directly, Child and maternal mortality are on the increase, our infrastructure has decayed and the moves to address our infrastructural deficits are equally threatened by insecurity.
“From this very disturbing picture, it is clear that the Northern Nigeria faces an existential threat. This is therefore a time for all hands to be on deck to pull the region back from the brink.
“It is a time when our people must close ranks, fashion a Marshall plan for the North and move decisively to change these negatives,” he said.