The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasiru el-Rufai, has called out Governor Uba Sani, saying the governor is “embarrassingly and sycophantically rambling” every day.
El-Rufai stated this in a post on his X on Tuesday titled Kaduna Update, apparently replying to comments Governor Sani made.
“Every day I see this governor embarrassingly and sycophantically rambling, I used to wonder why? However, confirming that Federal Government ‘reimbursements, interventions and grants’ in excess of N150bn have been given selectively to Kaduna by Tinubu, in the last 18 months, now explains everything.
“By all means, defend Asiwaju for the conditional cash transfer. Asiwaju has earned it, coming from you. The people of Kaduna State will judge at the right time and place. Have a nice day,” el-Rufai wrote on his Facebook page.
The altercation between the two started last week at a programme in Abuja when el-Rufai said many things were not right with the ruling party and government in power.
Governor Sani followed with a response in an interview on TVC, asking those who were criticizing the president to show what they did differently when they were in power.
The governor said no president in Nigeria’s history has practised democracy like Tinubu.
“Most of these politicians that came out and say they are coming as a coalition; they are politicians that were in government only less than two years ago. What did they do when they were in government? They were only fighting for power, not because they could do anything better. No president in the history of Nigeria has really practiced democracy like President Bola Ahmed Tinubu”, he had said.
In his latest tirade against Governor Sani, el-Rufai said “I used to wonder why? However, confirming that Federal Government ‘reimbursements, interventions and grants’ in excess of N150bn have been given selectively to Kaduna by Tinubu, in the last 18 months, now explains everything.”
“By all means, defend Asiwaju for the conditional cash transfer. Asiwaju has earned it, coming from you. The people of Kaduna State will judge at the right time and place. Have a nice day. – #ConcernedKadunaCitizen”, wrote el-Rufai.
El-Rufai, in another post, quoted former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as saying some time ago: “And in a developing nation, where people struggle to put food on the table, go to school, get rudimentary healthcare, eke out an existence not a career, (social services) delivery can be the difference between life and death; or at least the difference between a life with hope and one without it.
“They (citizens) want the problems impacting their lives solved or at least mitigated. They want a higher standard of living, a better quality of life, improved healthcare and education and security.”
