The Renewed Hope Ambassadors (RHA), on Friday, said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has fulfilled his campaign promises to Northern Nigeria through massive infrastructural and intervention projects spread across the region.

The group stated this after concluding a media tour of ongoing Federal Government projects in the North-West geopolitical zone in collaboration with the Presidential Media Team.

In a statement issued by its Director of Media and Publicity, Tunde Rahman, the RHA said allegations in some quarters that the Tinubu administration had neglected the North were false and misleading.

According to the statement, the tour covered projects from Zuba Junction in the Federal Capital Territory through Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa and Kebbi states.

The group disclosed that under Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, the Federal Government embarked on 260 Special Intervention Projects nationwide through the Federal Ministry of Works, with the North-West alone accounting for 48 projects currently under construction.

“This is the highest among the six geopolitical zones in terms of critical intervention infrastructure projects across the country. This is evidence of President Tinubu’s commitment to the development and transformation of the Northern region,” the statement said.

The RHA noted that the projects would improve transportation, agriculture, trade and economic growth across the region.

Among the projects inspected during the tour was the ongoing reconstruction of the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway, which features 20-centimetre thick concrete pavement and solar-powered streetlights.

According to the group, the 82-kilometre Section One of the highway, stretching from Zuba Junction to beyond Jere and handled by Infiouest International Construction Company, is almost completed except for about 300 metres, while work has commenced on Section Two.

In Kaduna State, the delegation inspected the Kaduna Western Bye-pass project, which had reportedly remained abandoned for over 22 years but has now reached about 50 per cent completion.

The team also visited the Kaduna-Kano-Katsina-Maradi railway project linking Northern Nigeria to the Niger Republic, which it described as one of the most iconic infrastructure projects under the current administration.

The statement added that construction work on the flyover bridge linked to the trans-Saharan railway line in Kaduna was progressing steadily and expected to be completed by December 2026.

In Kano State, the RHA said the Kano end of the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway had reached 95 per cent completion.

The delegation also inspected projects at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, including the Cardiovascular Centre, Paediatric Centre and Students’ Hostel facilitated through constituency projects of Deputy Senate President, Jubril Barau.

Other projects inspected in Kano included a N27 billion irrigation project in Garko funded through the Ecological Fund Office, a solar energy project by the Energy Commission of Nigeria, and a 10-hectare Agricultural Incubation Centre at Bayero University Kano built by the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure.

The group further inspected the headquarters of the North West Development Commission in Kano, one of the regional intervention agencies established by the Tinubu administration.

In Jigawa State, the delegation said the Jigawa section of the Kaduna-Kano-Katsina-Maradi railway project was virtually completed.

The Kebbi section of the Sokoto-Badagry Super Highway project, covering phases 2A and 2B, was also said to be progressing steadily with concrete pavement works and streetlight installations already ongoing.

The RHA maintained that the scale and spread of projects under the Tinubu administration demonstrated the President’s commitment to Northern development.

“With these projects among others under construction and in various stages of completion in the North-West and across the entire Northern region in just three years of the Tinubu administration, the development of the North seems assured,” the statement added.

The group urged critics of the administration to personally inspect the projects, insisting that claims of marginalisation of the North were politically motivated ahead of the 2027 elections.