Close aides to the President told newsmen several initiatives were being implemented and new ones created.
While insisting that the President was not afraid of any political or pressure group, the sources said the plan was to counteract the recent actions of some northern leaders opposed to his reelection in 2027.
Some Northern politicians had expressed discontent with the Tinubu administration, citing what they described as unfair policies and marginalisation.
They also accused the President of nepotism and filling his cabinet with Lagos indigenes.
A former Chief Whip of the Senate, Ali Ndume, had lamented that the President was not accessible to lawmakers and chieftains of the All Progressives Congress.
Ndume, who was removed by the party over the comment, was replaced by the Senator representing Borno North, Tahir Monguno.
Despite being sanctioned, Ndume initially defended his statements, insisting Tinubu was not accessible. He later apologised.
Earlier in July, a former National Vice Chairman of the party in the North-West, Salihu Lukman, also berated northern politicians in the Tinubu-led administration. He described them as a “choir group poorly singing ‘on your mandate we stand’ irrespective of the shaky and staggering reality being demonstrated by the mandate holder.”
Lukman, who recently resigned from the APC, also berated Vice President Kashim Shettima for not being a rallying point for Northern politicians.
Some prominent northerners had also raised eyebrows following the decision of the Federal Government to relocate some departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria from Abuja to Lagos.
In April, a spokesman for the Northern Elders Forum, Abdulaziz Suleiman, said the forum regretted supporting Tinubu, adding that with the increased security challenges in the region, the North had learned its lessons.
Suleiman, in an interview, noted that the North would prioritise unity and agreement in choosing the country’s next top presidential candidate.
The senior official expressed sadness that northern governors were not acknowledging the contributions of the Federal Government to their states.
He pointed out that palliatives being distributed by the central government for the welfare of citizens were not getting to them, noting that bags of rice were being rebranded and shared by some governors.
According to the source, the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, had been tasked with taking up causes of the north and fighting for them.