Tag: El-Rufai

El-Rufai Warned Against Inciting Religious Conflict with His Words
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El-Rufai Warned Against Inciting Religious Conflict with His Words

Samuel Kwamkur, a prominent figure within the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Plateau state, issued a stern warning to Nasir El-Rufai, the former Governor of Kaduna State, cautioning him against making inflammatory remarks that could ignite conflict in Nigeria. Kwamkur, a former National Director of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), expressed his concerns during a press conference held in Jos on Sunday. He was responding to alleged statements made by El-Rufai before his departure from office, wherein the former governor purportedly claimed that the Islamic dominance in Kaduna had been successfully extended to the entire country and would persist. According to Kwamkur, El-Rufai allegedly acknowledged deceiving Christians who questioned the Muslim/Muslim ticket during ele...
We Can’t Afford Another Civil War, El-Rufai Tells Corpers
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We Can’t Afford Another Civil War, El-Rufai Tells Corpers

Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai has asked youths to promote peace as Nigeria cannot afford to fight another civil war after millions of lives were lost to war. The governor gave the admonition while addressing corps members posted to the State during the closing ceremony of the orientation camp for 2022 Batch B (Stream 2) on Tuesday.   El-Rufai also encouraged members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, who may play a role in the 2023 general elections to shun acts that may jeopardize the integrity and transparency of the polls. The governor who was represented by state acting Governor, Dr Hadiza Balarabe said, “The youth must remember that the NYSC came into being after the civil war that tore every fabric of the Nigerian state. The war was a needless savag...
ASUU Strike: Nasir El-Rufai Threatens to Sack Lecturers
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ASUU Strike: Nasir El-Rufai Threatens to Sack Lecturers

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, threatens to sack all lecturers of the Kaduna State University (KASU) still involved in the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) stopped academic activities in February over the inability of the government to fulfill its demands. All attempts by the government to meet an agreement with the Union have failed so far, however, Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai threatens to relieve the Kaduna State University lecturers of their duties if they do not resume academic activities. See Also: ASUU Strike: Unease As Electricity Workers Declare Readiness To Join NLC Protest He disclosed this via a radio programme in Kaduna on Wednesday, saying he had instructed lecturers to resume lectur...
Terrorists Threaten to Kidnap Buhari and El-Rufai
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Terrorists Threaten to Kidnap Buhari and El-Rufai

Terrorists threaten to kidnap President Muhammadu Buhari and Kaduna Governor Nasir el-Rufai if they fail to meet their demands. The group of terrorists is suspected to be behind the Abuja-Kaduna train abduction back in March. The terrorists were seen in a new video torturing the captives abducted from the Abuja-Kaduna train and thereafter making demands from the government. See Also: Report Terrorists That Live Among You, Buhari Begs Nigerians One of the terrorists who spoke in the Hausa dialect said some of the abductees will be sold off as slaves just like they did with the chibok girls if the demands of the group are not fulfilled by the government. “He said: “This is our message to the government of Nigeria and just as you have seen these people here, by God’s grace...
Gov El-Rufai Reveals Identity Of Kaduna Train Attackers
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Gov El-Rufai Reveals Identity Of Kaduna Train Attackers

Train Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State on Friday in Abuja met President Muhammadu Buhari on security developments in his state following Monday night’s terror attack on an Abuja-Kaduna bound train. Recall that terrorists bombed the Abuja-Kaduna train en route Rigasa with hundreds of passengers on-board. During the attack, many passengers were kidnapped, others shot dead and an unascertain number of the passengers also sustained various degrees of injury. El-Rufai, who was sober about recent happenings in the state, told journalists that the President had reassured him that drastic measures would be taken to check the activities of terrorists and bandits in Kaduna and beyond. The governor revealed that the attack on the train was carried out by Boko Haram terrorists ...
Only Buhari Can Convince Me Run For Presidency Or Be A Running Mate – El Rufai
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Only Buhari Can Convince Me Run For Presidency Or Be A Running Mate – El Rufai

Governor Nasir El-Ruffai of Kaduna State has said that he would only run for the 2023 presidency either as a presidential aspirant or a running mate to the Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi if President Muhammadu Buhari insists. El-Rufai insisted that he has no intention to run for presidency or be a running mate to Amaechi as being rumoured on social media. Speaking on Channel Television’s Politics Today, the Kaduna State Governor said he is tired and needs to rest and has no intention of coming back to politics after leaving office next year. He said Amaechi was free to run for the presidency but maintained that President Buhari is the only one who can convince him to join the race. See Also: Jonathan tried to Jail me, ignored our Friendship – El-Rufai “I’ve said ...
El-Rufai Dismisses 19 Aides
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El-Rufai Dismisses 19 Aides

Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has approved the sack of 19 political appointees in line with his administration’s ongoing downsizing of the workforce. The governor said the 19 workers are in the first batch of those to leave the state’s public service in continuation of the government’s downsizing of the workforce. A statement by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communication, Muyiwa Adekeye, said the affected officials include two Special Advisers, a Deputy Chief of Staff and several Special Assistants. “Malam Nasir El-Rufai has thanked the departing officials for their services to the state and wished them well in their future endeavours,” the statement said. It listed the affected workers as Bala Yunusa Mohammed (Deputy Chief of Legislative Staff, DCOSL...
Jonathan tried to Jail me, ignored our Friendship – El-Rufai
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Jonathan tried to Jail me, ignored our Friendship – El-Rufai

The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has said former President Goodluck Jonathan almost put him in prison because he thought he was a threat to his second term ambition. El-Rufai, in an interview published in The Point, said although Jonathan was his very close friend from when he was the deputy governor of Bayelsa State, he persecuted him because he believed those who told him that he was a threat. The governor said his persecution started in 2006 when he was in charge at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. He said, “Jonathan was convinced by his own circle too that I was a threat and that if he was going for a second term of office, he had to take me out of the race. And so, Jonathan continued the persecution that Yar’adua started. “I have been associated with running...
El-Rufai to FG – Give us State police, Resource Control Now
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El-Rufai to FG – Give us State police, Resource Control Now

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has asked The Federal Government to as a matter of urgency implement the three specific recommendations of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Committee on True Federalism to address the insecurity in the country. The governor disclosed this when he featured as one of the speakers on a live broadcast on Friday tagged, ‘The Fierce Urgency of Now: Tactics and Strategies to Pull Nigeria from the Brink.’ El-Rufai said that Nigeria had failed “jealously and consistently protect its prerogatives and status as a leviathan, the ultimate guarantor of security, the protector of rights and the promoter of the rule of law.” He said that is why the Federal Government’s power is being challenged in a frighteningly sustained manner by a phalanx of armed non-sta...
Covid-19: El-Rufai Goes into Isolation
Covid-19, Nigeria, Safety

Covid-19: El-Rufai Goes into Isolation

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has gone into isolation following reports that an immediate family member and senior officials of the State Government tested positive for COVID-19. Mr El-Rufai is one of prominent Nigerians who tested positive for the virus in the earliest stages of the pandemic, which broke out in Nigeria in February. On Friday evening, Mr El-Rufai said he has been notified of more positive COVID-19 test results of persons close to him, including an immediate family member and senior officials of the Kaduna State Government. In the video broadcast shared via his verified social media pages, the governor said he is currently in self-isolation and hope to be tested by Sunday. “This is purely a precautionary move that complies with the standard COVID-19 pro...