For President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration, it’s one day – one controversy.

At a time we are still discussing the decay at the Aso Rock clinic, Kachikwu-Baru spats which has brought to light the $26 billion debacles, another fell on us from Washington DC.

On Thursday, October 12, 2017, President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim said the Bretton Woods institution has concentrated its developmental intervention in Nigeria in the North-Eastern part of the country on the request of President Buhari.

Kim said, “You know, in my very first meeting with President Buhari he said specifically that he would like us to shift our focus to the Northern region of Nigeria and we’ve done that“. A cursory look at this statement shows that the

A cursory look at this statement shows that the World Bank since 2015 has concentrated a lot of developmental projects in the Northern region of the country based on the President instructions.

The statement by Jim Yong Kim as harmless as it seems was received on the wrong side by Nigerians who have been familiar with the President’s disposition to the Northern part of Nigeria.

Though the request by the President as contained in the statement released by his Spokesman, Femi Adesina, is solely for the development of the war-ravaged North East region, as an aftermath of the Boko-Haram insurgency, it ended up been misconstrued by a lot of Nigerians and you won’t blame them for it.

President Buhari in recent times has not embraced the Pan Nigeria spirit expected of a President rather he has shown himself as a man for the North. It suffices to say that he only wants to be President for the sake of being addressed as his Excellency with White starched Babariga.

Some actions of the federal government have also towed that line of Northernisation of Nigeria. At a time the Ogoni oil spill cleaning project is entering a slow mode, same with the sad state of the Niger Delta, the President is expending millions of dollars in oil search in the North. Despite the havoc experienced in Borno which saw to the kidnapping of some lecturers of the University of Maiduguri that are still held hostage by the Boko-Haram sect.

The President has finalised plan to continue its search for oil in Sokoto and Yobe as recently declared by the NNPC Managing Director, Mr Maikanti Baru. What this means is that the President believes oil must be found in the North by all means, irrespective of the existing decay being experienced in the South-South region of the country due to oil exploration.

The President within the short spate of time remaining for his administration must embrace the Pan Nigeria spirit and stop being sectional.