By Samson Obande,  Lafia

Governor Abdullahi Sule has disclosed that Nasarawa State’s monthly federation allocation has risen to between N14 billion and N16 billion, up from a pre-2023 average of N3.8 billion to N4.5 billion, attributing the increase to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s removal of fuel subsidy and foreign exchange reforms.

Governor Sule made the disclosure on Saturday while hosting members of the Renewed Hope Ambassadors Presidential Media Team, led by Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Chief Bayo Onanuga, at the Government House in Lafia. 

The team is on a verification tour of federal and state projects across the North Central geopolitical zone.

The Governor said the reforms freed up resources that were previously consumed by subsidies, enabling the state to embark on major infrastructure and human capital projects without borrowing from banks.

“I can tell you for free, Nasarawa State is receiving an average of 14 to 16 billion every month,” the Governor said, contrasting it with what the state received before the reforms.

He listed projects executed with the additional resources, including: 

– Mararaba dual flyover – N16.7 billion 

– Akwanga township dualisation – N7.1 billion 

– Akwanga underpass – N6.6 billion 

– Shendam Road dualisation – N5.6 billion 

– Storm drain water channel at Amba bridge – N3.3 billion 

– Keffi flyover projectI– N11.4 billion 

“If you calculate so far, you will see that we spend about 90 billion. Now, Nasarawa State, no way in the past years could think of spending this amount of money,” he said. He recalled that in 2019 the state struggled for months to secure a N5 billion bond for a market project.

Governor Sule maintained that credit for the projects belongs to the federal government’s reforms, stressing that all developments in the state were achieved without loans.

“All the projects we are doing in Nasarawa State today at no borrowing from the bank is as a result of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s support. So you must give him the credit for that,” he said.

The Governor also highlighted investments in vocational education, health infrastructure, and agriculture. These include a skill acquisition centre offering training in 12 trades, a specialist hospital under construction in Akwanga, and a 10,000-hectare rice farm in the state.

Leader of the Renewed Hope Media Team, Chief Bayo Onanuga, said the visit was aimed at verifying that resources freed by federal reforms were being deployed for their intended purposes. He noted that Nasarawa State had become an industrial hub under Governor Sule’s administration.

Earlier, the Secretary to the Government of Nasarawa State, Labaran Shuaibu Magaji, SAN, welcomed the delegation, describing the visit as a demonstration of the strong partnership between the state and the federal government.