El-Rufai Says He Will Not Like To Be Called Political Godfather of Kaduna Governor
Former Governor Nasir El-Rufai has said he does not want to be called a Godfather of Kaduna State Governor.
He spoke at a capacity workshop for Borno state senior government officials in Maiduguri.
The former governor said he had only visited Kaduna five times since he left office, because he wants his successor, Governor Uba Sani to learn and get the jobs done.
El-Rufai said that was why he was not interfering in the affairs of Kaduna state government since he left office on May 29, 2023.
According to him, the task of leadership is to give jobs to those who are competent.
Last month, Governor Sani has announced that the debt he inherited from the El-Rufai administration was making it difficult for his administration to pay salary, because of massive deduction from the state allocation.
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The former governor was nominated by President Tinubu for a job in his cabinet but he was rejected by the national assembly devolve a security report during the ministerial screening.
Meanwhile, the cold war between El-Rufai and his successor, has created a gap in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna as stakeholders and party supporters are torn between the two camps.
Aisha Galadima, a female politician and APC member who recently posted a negative social media comment about the governor, apparently to show loyalty to El-Rufai, was picked up by security agents believed to be operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), on Sunday.
According to sources, Galadima criticised Sani’s last comment against the former governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai in a post on her Facebook page.
A neighbour said she was arrested in her community in the Tudun Wada area of Kaduna on Sunday afternoon, and another friend stated that Galadima’s phone was switched off after the arrest.
However, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Muhammad Lawal Shehu, said he was not aware of the arrest and directed inquiries about the matter to the DSS for further clarification.
