Lagos plotting to colonise Northern Nigeria — Kwankwaso
Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), has accused Lagos of attempting to “colonize” the northern region.
Speaking at the convocation ceremony of Skyline University in Kano, the former Kano State governor claimed that Lagos has been deeply involved in the ongoing power struggle over emirate rulership in the state.
”Let me note our situation here in Kano and indeed northern Nigeria,” Kwankwaso said.
“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.”
