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.”