Not Lagos! FG Unveils Region Enjoying Biggest Share Of Tinubu’s Projects

The Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, Tanimu Yakubu, has clarified which region receives the largest share of federal government projects.

Contrary to widespread belief, Yakubu stated that Lagos is not the top beneficiary. Instead, the North West region has secured the bulk of President Bola Tinubu’s approved federal projects.

He dismissed claims that Lagos had cornered ₦3.9 trillion worth of projects, describing such figures as misleading and politically driven. According to him, only ₦1.2 trillion represents Lagos-specific projects, including airport fencing, Carter Bridge rehabilitation, and other localized initiatives.

The remaining ₦2.7 trillion, he explained, relates to national infrastructure—major highways and transport corridors that may pass through Lagos but serve the entire country.

“By that logic, the Kano–Maiduguri expressway could just as easily be called a Maiduguri-only project. Such reasoning overlooks a central truth: these are not regional trophies; they are the arteries of a national economy,” Yakubu said.

He provided a regional breakdown of project allocations:

• North West: ₦5.97 trillion (over 40% of all approvals)

• South South: ₦2.41 trillion

• North Central: ₦1.13 trillion

• South East: ₦407 billion

• North East: ₦400 billion

• South West (excluding Lagos): ₦604 billion

• Lagos (exclusive projects): ₦1.2 trillion

Yakubu stressed that the numbers clearly show the North West, not Lagos, as the biggest beneficiary of Tinubu’s infrastructure drive.

He urged Nigerians to stop viewing federal projects as sectional spoils or political rewards, emphasizing that they are national assets meant to connect and strengthen the economy.

“The farmer in Katsina needs a market in Lagos. The trader in Aba depends on goods flowing through Kano. The student in Sokoto requires the national grid as much as her counterpart in Port Harcourt. Federal projects must be seen as national investments designed to connect Nigeria to itself, and ultimately, to the world,” he explained.