KADUNA — A massive political storm has erupted across Kaduna State following the emergence of a explosive leaked letter allegedly signed by Governor Uba Sani, revealing a jaw-dropping N2.3 trillion budget approved to host a presidential campaign rally for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The document, addressed to the Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, Senator Abdul’aziz Yari, boasts of staging what it describes as the mother of all rallies in Northern Nigeria, triggering fierce condemnation from traumatized residents who accuse state authorities of lavish political squandering while rural communities bleed.
The scandal has hit a raw nerve across the state, particularly in terror-plagued agrarian communities and the heavily targeted belts of Southern Kaduna, where unchecked banditry has brought daily life to a standstill. Terrified farmers across several local government areas can no longer step onto their farmlands out of fear of slaughter or abduction, leaving food production in ruins and prices soaring. At the same time, parents across rural districts refuse to send their children to school after repeated security threats and high-profile abductions, leaving scores of classrooms empty and compounding an already devastating education crisis in the state.
Public outrage has reached boiling point over what critics describe as a total collapse of governance priorities. While ordinary citizens pay millions in ransom to kidnappers and whole farming villages remain abandoned, state leaders appear fully absorbed in multi-trillion naira political mobilization and mega rallies. Opponents and civil society organizations have blasted the government for lavishing astronomical sums on party fanfare while local vigilantes lack basic equipment, displaced families starve in informal camps, and rural schools operate without security escorts.
Although official party handlers and government representatives have attempted to damage-control the crisis by calling the document unverified and pointing out that the N2.3 trillion sum vastly exceeds the entire annual budget of Kaduna State, the revelation has ignited widespread popular fury. For millions of struggling residents caught between crippling economic hardship, abandoned farmlands, and daily terror, the leaked memo stands as a bitter symbol of a political elite completely disconnected from the painful realities of the people they were elected to protect.
