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Kwankwaso accuses Lagos of plotting to colonise Northern region

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) presidential candidate in 2023 general election, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso has accused Lagos of plotting to “colonise” the northern region.

The former Kano State governor who spoke during the convocation ceremony at Skyline University in the state, alleged that Lagos played a significant role in the ongoing emirate rulership battle in the state.

: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.”

“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,” he stated. “Even the telephones that we make or register here in Kano, efforts are there to take all the taxes to Lagos.

“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”, Kwankwaso said.

According to LIB, the NNPP supreme also decried the widening gap between the rich and the poor, describing the situation as perilous for the nation.

“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,” he said.

Prevail Inegbenose

Prevail Inegbenose is the News Correspondent of Spark News Daily - Nigeria's most sought-after online newspaper in Government, Politics, Sport, Entertainment and Religion. He is a graduate of Mass Communication with 17 years of active and practical journalism. Tel: 08039564796.

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