Jonathan has developed North more than past leaders - Maku

The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku,  has lashed out at former presidents from the North and leaders in the part of the country.

The Minister, at a Town Hall meeting to climax the Good  Governance Tour  on Tuesday in Kaduna, said President Goodluck Jonathan  had developed  the North more than past leaders of the region since independence.

Maku said the North should blame its past leaders and not the Jonathan for  the underdevelopment of the region.

He said  gone were the days when the North dictated to the rest of the country,  who would govern them(Nigerians), saying the Presidency would now go round the entire country.

According to Maku, who is also the supervisory minister of defence , northerners should be grateful for the efforts of the President in providing infrastructure for the region.

He said, “There has been a denial, a deliberate denial that President Goodluck Jonathan is not developing the North and there has been an agenda of deceit, which is carried out mainly by people and some politicians in some part of the North, who want to deny the imprint of this administration.

“The truth is that never in this country have we seen a government that is impacting significantly on the development of the North as President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration and I want to challenge anyone to a debate on this and I will back it up with facts.

“We have been to a number of northern states and now, we are in Kaduna, the capital of the old Northern Region and in all the places we have gone, the evidence is very clear that since 2007, the Yar’adua/Jonathan Presidency has impacted so much on the development of the North”.

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