Outrage, yesterday trailed Northern senators’ position, on the relocation of federal agencies to Lagos from Abuja, as senators representing constituencies in the Northern region expressed their dissatisfaction on the issue of relocating Federal agencies to Lagos, by the President Tinubu administration.
The senators who argued that the decision was a deliberate ploy to further under-develop the North, also complained on the lopsided allocation, between the North and the South in the 2024 budget.
In the light of this present development, a pro-democracy northern organization referred to as the Joint-Action Northern Youth Associations, have come out to disregard the decision to relocate some major departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria and and the headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria to Lagos by the President Tinubu administration.
Also, the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, maintained thesame views and position held by the Northern senators on the issue. In their own words:
“The CBN’s decision is by no means isolated or normal administrative action to fix some logistics problem. Rather, it fits into a disturbing pattern of antagonistic actions often taken by certain federal administrations against the interests of Northern and other parts of Nigeria.
“The CBN’s announcement was followed by another from the Federal Ministry of Aviation’s Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN’s plans to also relocate to Lagos due to shortage of office claim of the volume of traffic handled by Lagos.
‘”The proposed actions of the two agencies, CBN and FAAN, are precipitous and mala fide,” said ACF in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary, Professor Tukur Baba.
