The Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo alongside with his boss, President Buhari recently declared their assets; an exercise which generated mixed reactions from across the country, mostly bothering on the authenticity of the amount of assets declared. Particularly for the president who 6 months prior to the 2015 polls said that he is not sure of one million naira in his account and had to take a loan from his bank to purchase his presidential nomination form!
Surprisingly, the former senior pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Prof Osinbajo was declared richer than his boss. How "honest" of them both. lol. So He said on Saturday that the present level of poverty and underdevelopment in the Northern parts of the country should not be allowed to define the future of the region.
Osinbajo gave the advice in his address to the summit organized by the Northern Re-Awakening Forun (NRF), tagged:“Building a Safe, Secure and Economically Inclusive Northern Nigeria’’. Although Osinbajo expressed worry that the poverty level in the 19 Northern sates was high he, however, called on the people to evolve strategies to stem the tide.
“`The Northern states occupying about 70 per cent of the land mass of the country have the
