The Middle Belt Forum, MBF, the council has purported that Nasir El-Rufai’s tenure as the governor of Kaduna State was pervaded with immense killings and destruction of Christian-dominated areas in Southern Kaduna.
The forum additionally remarked upon the fact that the former governor remained unmoved by the genocidal attacks on the communities situated in the south where thousands of towns and villages were destroyed and tens of thousands killed.
It was also alluded that the ex-governor had deployed religion to quell the area, by denying the indigenous groups in the areas, political appointments.
El-Rufai is no saint, and one can tell by his recent disclosures on how he had attempted to promote a same-ticket policy in his state which was later successfully adopted by Tinubu and Shettima.
It’s no wonder that the Christians are of the mindset that his plans are geared towards hate against them by the Muslim faithfuls.
Meanwhile, Dr Isuwa Dogo, the National Publicity Secretary of the forum, had in a statement he released on Sunday, June 17, criticized the pronouncements of the former governor when he had addressing a select group of Islamic clerics after the presidential and governorship polls conclusion.
The MBF had additionally stated that it was outraged by the wicked and evil attempts by El-Rufai and his co-conspirators to drag Nigeria down the slippery slope of religious tension and bigotry.
The forum lastly, warned that the former governor was an obvious present and future danger to the unity of the country and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu should be careful of associating with him.
One can only guess at El-Rufai’s plans and wonder his true motive to disclosing his same faith aspirations. Did he do so because he knows that in Nigeria, such outbursts would come with no punishments or was he simply being a Nigerian politician trying to garner favour with the newest power?
