Sani, in a statement on
Wednesday, said while El-Rufai accused Buhari of running a failed government
through a memo, the governor “has failed also woefully.”
The lawmaker representing
Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani, has asked Governor of
Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, to shelve his presidential ambition, saying many
of those who claim to be loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari are opportunists.
The lawmaker said, “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.”
Sani recalled that an
online news portal, SaharaReporters had reported about the alleged “systemic
nepotism, opacity and complete absence of transparency” in the governance of
Kaduna, saying that the report is factual about the reality of the situation in
the state.
He alleged, “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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