Senator
representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, has admonished his
State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai to shelve his presidential ambition because “he
has failed woefully.”
Sani,
who gave the call in a statement he issued on Wednesday, also lambasted
El-Rufai for allowing kidnapper take over the state, despite accusing President
Muhammadu Buhari of running a failed government.
The
lawmaker maintained that some of those who claim to be loyal to President
Muhammadu Buhari are opportunists.
Sani
also accused the diminutive governor of “systemic nepotism, opacity and
complete absence of transparency” in the governance of Kaduna state.
According
to the lawmaker, “He (El-Rufai) thinks President Muhammadu Buhari failed but he
never invited PMB to even commission a completed toilet in his state. Under
El-Rufai, Kaduna has become a hub of kidnappers and a sanctuary for herdsmen.
“The
very governor who once condemned the National Assembly for lack of transparency
has proven to be worse. El-Rufai wants to be seen as an apostle of Buhari’s
change but he is actually the Judas of change.
“It is
hypocritical to promise Nigerians change and end up only ‘putting change in our
pockets.’ There’s nothing progressive about many people who claim to be
Buharists; they are reactionaries and career opportunists who can fit into any
government in power.
“I call on El-Rufai to suspend his
presidential or vice presidential ambitions and concentrate on proper
governance of the state.
“Journalists
in Kaduna State are under siege; blackmailed, arrested, pocketed or threatened
with arrest and, as such, could not have written such a story. El-Rufai jails
journalists like Pinochet or Stalin. El-Rufai is a man with a mouth for
criticism but without a stomach for criticism. In his two years in office, he
has jailed not less than seven journalists in Kaduna, of which many are in
court.
“Kaduna
State is run like a personal ‘family and friends estate’ without any meaningful
physical achievement other than sponsored media propaganda. El-Rufai has no
money to pay traditional rulers he recently sacked but has money to dispense as
contracts to family, friends and political cronies.
“El-Rufai
has enough money to pay herdsmen but no money to pay district heads. Kaduna is
today littered with abandoned drainages to the point that the rainy season has
turned Kaduna into a ‘coastal state with creeks.’ He is auctioning over 2,000
government houses he inherited but he has yet to build a hut.”
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