The North-Central All Progressives Congress (APC) Forum has decried the alleged exclusion of the North-Central zone from the N2.493 trillion allocated to regional development commissions in the proposed 2025 budget.
The Forum, through a statement on Friday by its chairman, Alhaji Saleh Zazzaga, said the absence of a regional development commission for the zone, which has made it miss out on the N2.493 trillion budget, was an injustice and marginalization.
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The federal government has so far created some regional development commissions such as the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), which would be replaced by the South-South Development Commission; North West Development Commission (NWDC), South West Development Commission (SWDC); South-East Development Commission (SEDC); and North East Development Commission (NEDC).
The Forum frowned at the “neglect and marginalisation of the region”, despite what it described as the massive support enjoyed by the Tinubu-led federal government in the geopolitical zone in the 2023 election.
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