Lagos: Kwankwaso Alleges Plans To Colonize North

Former Governor of Kano State and the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has accused Lagos of attempting to exert control over the northern region.

Kwankwaso made this assertion during his address at the convocation ceremony of Skyline University in Kano, where he also stated that Lagos has been involved in the ongoing disputes regarding emirates in Kano State.

Kwankwaso expressed his concerns about the numerous challenges facing the North, including economic difficulties, insecurity, poverty, hunger, and various diseases, emphasizing that the current situation is detrimental to the nation.

Kwankwaso said, “Let me note our situation here in Kano and indeed northern Nigeria. The emir is just being a stooge at this very difficult time, especially in this part of the country (northern Nigeria).

“Today, we can see very clearly that there is a lot of efforts from the Lagos axis to colonize this part of the country. Today, Lagos wouldn’t allow us to choose an emir, Lagos has to come to the centre of Kano to put their own emir.”

The NNPP Chieftain also spoke on tax collection, saying, “Today, we are aware that the Lagos young men are working so hard to impose taxes and take away our taxes from Kano and this part of the country to Lagos.

“Today, as we have seen, even the telephones that we make or register here in Kano, efforts are there to take all the taxes to Lagos.

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“Even our sons and daughters who have brought factories many of them here in Kano and northern Nigeria and even banks, somehow, they are forced to take their headquarters to Lagos because taxes will now have to go to Lagos.”

The former governor of Kano addressed the issue of inequality, stating, “We have observed the attempts by certain individuals to exacerbate the divide between the affluent and the impoverished, and I contend that this poses a significant threat.”

Consequently, Kwankwaso urged the legislators from the northern region to remain vigilant and ensure that their area is not disadvantaged in any manner.

“At this moment, I would like to call all our National Assembly members to keep their eyes open so that they don’t do anything that would cheat the people of northern Nigeria, especially here, Kano.

“We are witnesses to what happened during the first term, 1999 to 2000, where our members of the National Assembly were bribed, were treated into collecting huge sums of money to support offshore in this country. That law put a huge blow into our economy not only here in northern Nigeria but all other states.”