El-rufai Has Unwittingly Revealed Why Peter Obi Is Best For ‘Arewa’ In Tackling Insecurity, Unleashing Prosperity
The Oasis Reporters
October 19, 2022
Nigerian patriot and committed citizen amongst stakeholders, Atedo Peterside has commended “the organisers of the Arewa Joint Committee Interactive Session with major Presidential Candidates that took place in Kaduna”. He gave “Kudos to @atiku, @Official_ABAT and @PeterObi for addressing some of the salient issues that matter. Pity that @KwankwasoRM opted to stay out”.
In the process, one of the huge outcomes of the interactive session of Peter Obi with the giant northern Nigerian stakeholders at the Arewa House interactive session was the unwittingly made outburst by a major stakeholder, governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-rufai who said that he “was in Anambra when Peter Obi was Governor, he got me detained in my hotel room. Now he is coming here to speak and I’m the Governor. But we won’t detain him, we’re Northerners, we’re civilized, we don’t do things like that” – Nasir el-Rufai.
But in the sophistry we watched, it should be noted that el-rufai had initially revealed who detained him in Awka as the SSS, then under the control of former president Goodluck Jonathan.
Why does this little devil, called El-Rufa, lie for a living? Perhaps, he doesn’t know we keep records of everything.
— Aku-N’esi-Obi-Ike (I) (@Makavelli275) October 17, 2022
This👇was him telling Nigerians abt how he was detained by Pres. GEJ in 2015, but he’s now telling the world it was Obi & no longer GEJ pic.twitter.com/GNuPPxLxnx
He has changed his story, eleven years after to blame Peter Obi.
Blowing hot and cold on the same topic seems rather unfair and slightly opportunistic, just because he wanted to rain on Peter Obi’s parade at Arewa Interactive session in Kaduna state, where he is the governor.
Watch his change of story while watching his facial expression keenly.
"I was in Anambra when Obi was Governor, he got me detained in my hotel room. Now he is coming here to speak and I'm the Governor. But we won't detain him, we're Northerners, we're civilized we don't behave like that"
— Femi Fani-Kayode (@realFFK) October 18, 2022
– Nasir el-Rufai pic.twitter.com/jiEasbN19d
One vast sentiment that needs to be exposed is the fallacy that northern career politicians tell is usually the bogey of one north, the glorious north of one region, one people and homogeneous citizens who all act alike, think alike and love alike.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
They say it in such a sleek fashion, but watching their fear filled angry faces and the scowling faces of the silent audience with their suppressed giggles tells the real story of the suppression of the true story of the north that everyone knows, yet nobody wants to come out in the open to tell the real truth about the north. This is actually out of deep fear.
El-rufai reveals why he would not “retaliate” against Peter Obi even though that “in addition to the Police, the Department of State Security (DSS) under him in Kaduna, there is also the 1 Mechanized Division of the Nigerian Army. And that there’s one reason why he would not move against Peter Obi in the state that is firmly under his control, because they “are northerners who don’t do things like that”. They “are civilized”.
Is El-rufai tacitly acknowledging that governors do indeed control the security forces within their domain?
It seems so, going by his own admission.
If he is in control of the army, the DSS and the Police in Kaduna State, how come that state has faced one of the worst insecurity challenges in the North West ?
Why has nothing been done to curb it and give the people a fresh breath of air, the type that the Hausa born first governor of the state in the third republic, Ahmed Makarfi gave to the State by freeing Southern Kaduna region who are aboriginals from the rule of Fulani Emirs by granting them Chiefdoms, a move that brought instant peace and harmony to the fractious state, and the state had peace and prosperity for almost twenty years even after the tenure of Ahmed Makarfi lapsed in 2007?
Nasir El-rufai has been the governor of the state since 2015. His tenure would lapse in 2023.
Under him, insecurity has become the very hallmark of Kaduna State. Some Chiefs had been invited to Kaduna for a crucial “peace” meeting with the governor. A chief, the Agom Adara, Raphael Maiwada Galadima had attended the meeting, accompanied by his wife. On their way back, they were allegedly kidnapped by alleged Fulani bandits. Not only did some indecencies allegedly happen to his wife, the chief was executed by the alleged bandits, even after a huge ransom was paid.
The picture that later surfaced of the governor visiting the widow of the chief on a condolence visit appear in the media, they were chillingly scary, just seeing the tears on her face.
El-rufai had a deputy under him, Mr. Barnabas Bala Bantex. It is doubtful to believe that between them, hot political slaps did not take place. And of course, the man was dropped to drive into oblivion, politically.
To replace him was a Muslim woman from Southern Kaduna. Elections are coming and the ruling APC would still not present a Christian as deputy in their ticket.
Ever heard of a Senator called Suleiman Hunkuyi ? He disagreed with Nasir El-rufai politically and he was forming another wing of the party in defiance of the status quo. It was on a Friday when he received a letter from the government that he was owing so much on land rent and that if he didn’t pay up before close of business on that same Friday, his building would be demolished.
It was so done.
Yet he talks about civility ?
Records abound of many citizens who were arrested, detained and tortured in that state for being on the wrong side of religion, tribe or party. Everyone knows what goes on politically in the north. But it is a region of close mouthed people who live in fear.
He too has suffered incarceration in Kaduna. He later resigned from his job as lecturer at Kaduna State University.
When you hear of Northerners being more patriotic, loving, accommodating, kinder and more tolerant, snigger and just move on. They are never a one monolithic entity. No matter what politicians tell you. Many Southerners were born there. Just as many northerners were born in the South. But everyone speaks the other’s language and knows the other person’s culture. Including the warts and all.
But Nefertiti@Firstladyship doesn’t know much about the internal dynamics of the North like people who were born there. Therefore when she sounds hopeful and shows belief, just agree with her and say that some folks act and say things that look like ‘bridge burning’ when tomorrow comes.
There are some things that the governor has said that he should not have said, but he doesn’t know it now.
If El-Rufai can calm down a little bit, & stop his politics of blackmail, he may well govern Nigeria someday. Nothing is impossible, & the politics in Nigeria is fluid. @elrufai, you make more enemies for yourself when you continue to attack an IDEA whose time has come. #Wisdom
— NEFERTITI (@firstladyship) October 17, 2022
Quo vadis, Arewa ?
