It seems, Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has murdered sleep, and he is no longer likely to sleep with his two eyes closed. Going by the revelations filtering into the open at the moment, the worrisome Nigeria’s security mess was politically engineered by forces that were desperate for political power. That by now should not be in doubt. Secondly, it is becoming clearer that there are political potentates in Nigeria who are profiting from the gushing blood well.
The iconic Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, in one of his plural prophetic lyrics says
when cat sleep rat go bite him tail wetin he dey find, palaver. In relation to the unfolding Nigeria’s political soap opera, this may be Governor El-Rufai’s season of palaver. With the Shia Islam case yet unsettled, he unkindly ‘poisoned’ his Benue State counterpart, Samuel Ortom. Now, the man is vomiting the secret venom of the All Progressives Congress (APC). So it seems.
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Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Thursday said the state was prepared to have some students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State killed in an unsuccessful bombardment aimed at bandits.
Speaking in the wake of the students’ release, Mr El-Rufai said that before the bombardment could be done, the bandits hurriedly changed location which led to the students spending over a month in captivity.
“Two days after the abduction of the Afaka young people, I was assured by the air force and the army that they knew where the kidnappers were with the students and they had encircled (them),” he said during a webinar organised by the Africa Leadership Group.
Governors Samuel Ortom of Benue State and Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state has fingered his Kaduna state counterpart, Nasir el-Rufai as one of the real enemies of Nigeria and among the very few persons misleading President Muhammadu Buhari.
He maintained that the Kaduna state Governor is a sycophant, ethnic champion and religious bigot who hated anyone who did not share the same faith with him.
The Benue state Governor who in a statement weekend in Makurdi by his Chief Press Secretary, CPS, Terver Akase, was reacting to a statement credited to the Kaduna state Governor who alleged that Governor Ortom was attacking the federal government over insecurity in his state to cover his failures.
We planned to bomb bandits despite risk of killing kidnapped students – El-Rufai
“We know it is risky, we know in the process we may lose some of the abductees but it is a price we have to pay, Mr El-Rufai says
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The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Thursday, said the state government had planned to invade the hideouts bandits even if it meant losing some kidnapped students in the process.
According to Mr El-Rufai, that was the plan before the bandits released 27 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State.
The governor disclosed this during a webinar organised by the Africa Leadership Group. PREMIUM TIMES obtained the video clip of the governor’s comments.