Former Kano State governorship candidate of the Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Salihu Yakasai, has claimed that the North-East received no project allocation while the South-East got the least share from the over N1 trillion worth of projects approved at Thursday’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Yakasai made the allegation in a statement posted on his X account on Friday, where he shared a breakdown of the project allocations by geopolitical zones.
According to him, the South-West, the president’s region, received the highest share with N789 billion, representing 75% of the total approvals. He noted that the South-South zone followed with N156 billion, North Central N43 billion, North West N30 billion, while the South-East received N28 billion. The North-East, he stated, got zero allocation.
His breakdown reads:
South West: N789bn (75%)
South South: N156bn (14%)
North Central: N43bn (4%)
North West: N30bn (2%)
South East: N28bn (2%)
North East: N0bn (0%)
Nigerian Newssphere earlier reported that the Tinubu-led FEC approved major road contracts and project variations estimated at over N400 billion during the meeting.
The development has intensified public debate and criticism over perceived regional imbalance in federal project distribution under the current administration.
