Rufai’s Insurmountable Setback, And Phobia Of Stark Reality
Statement issued by Northern Resistance Front and Kaduna Discussion Circle Titled El-Rufai’s Insurmountable Setback, And Phobia Of Stark Reality
“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies” Noam Chom, Philosopher, social critic and political activist
Our attention has been drawn to a news interview of Channels Television in which Nasir El-Rufai, former Governor of Kaduna State, presently a member of African Democratic Contraption. In which he made unsubstantiated claims, which contains a coterie of lies and disinformation.
Our groups usually will ignore such satanic verses, as we find it completely laughable, baseless and lacking any substance in its entirety. While not holding brief for Senator Uba Sani, however, in order to set the record straight and to track with the popular mandate given to the indifatigable Governor of Kaduna, a doyen of civil society activism over the years.
We find it necessary to state as follows
1. El-Rufai apparent scathing criticism of Sen Uba is a rehearsed brain wave calculated towards stirring crisis of confidence and disharmony among the people of Kaduna State for his own selfish agenda. The scrawny politician has suffered a heavy defeat in the hands of the Governor Sani during the just concluded Chikun, Kajuru, Zaria da Kewaye and Basawa Constituencies bye elections. The lost was a big blow to ego of the accidental Governor not only in the state but the entire North West Zone.
2. The posturing of the scrawny politician did not come to many as a surprise. When it came, it was widely regarded as shameless face saving stunt. His gambit of not responding with facts and figures but playing the ostrich is an admittance of culpability in terms of racketeering, profiteering and rent seeking dominant features witnessed under his mid rule.
3. One of best things that happen and indeed has happened to Nigeria is the exclusion of El-Rufai away any position at the federal and state government. He is the nation’s most dangerous source of destabilization, disunity, impunity, lawlessness and disequilibrium. It amounts to saying the obvious that this man who voluntarily admitted given money to foreign herdsmen and was suspected of nocturnal meetings in a state neighbouring Niger Republic must be a person of interest to the Nigerian citizens and relevant security agencies. In the last two years he has holding clandestine engagement with people of questionable identity within and outside the country including Lebanon and Marrakesh among others.
4. “His sad commentary on the recent outbreak of crisis recorded during the African Democratic Congress (ADC) meeting can best be described as puerile politics at its worst, bizarre and reckless “. The political skirmishes emanated as a result intractable leadership within the party arising from attempt by El-Rufai to illegally hijack from the original members. The founding members of party resisted the unsavoury plot knowing exactly what transpired during similar unholy gesture by the same El-Rufai in the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
5. As El-Rufai recognises his declining political significance after his failed governmental era in the state, he is creating importance by flirting with all sorts of contraption and minions giving the impression of imminent in the sight of the gullible people craving for cheap publicity embedded with narrow minded agenda.
6. We have total disregard for self professed qualities, negative temparament, misplaced energy and inconsistency associated with people like him. Our reason is due to our allergy and disdain for characters who are not integral enough to be in consistent without discrepancy and who regularly trail vicious threads of regret behind them in every togetherness.”
7. “On his threshold of life that he is feeling chaotic, it is when he has crossed the red line that he discovers inherent limitation of his political prowess which looked simple are infinitely tortuous, complex and unrealistic. That there is no consistency in any inconsistency”. From PDP to CPC to APC to SDP to ADC and likely to another contraption soon.
8. El-Rufai’s vilification of Uba Sani is a product of envy, bitterness, anger frustration and therefore unacceptable. He has blamed President Tinubu, Sen Uba and others for the political misfortune that befalled him since his failure to secure ministerial slot in the federal cabinet. He is shamelessly demanding for things that he rarely extent to others, in fact, he denied victims of his misrule affordable school fees, shelter over their heads, gainful employment, living wage, disobeyed court orders and trampled on their rights with impunity, lawlessness and reckless abandon.
9. El-Rufai have no conscience left when he criticized Uba Sani in such manner. We can testify that he stood by you during your Mubadala ordeal in which you almost lost your deposit in the telecom mega deal. He fough for you tooth and nail during the travails under the David Mark led Senate. An action that metamorphosed to your being banned from holding public office. He supported you when you ran away on self imposed exile during late President and mobilised campaign funds for you in excess throughout your 2015 Governorship ambition among others. “Your penchant for bitterness and arrogance has crossed the line of decency. Dishing out cocktails of falsehood and rhetorics cannot save at this critical period. The people have resolved to bring an end to your Reign of political hegemony and reign of terror in Kaduna State.”
10. Once again, for the purpose of clarity and setting the records straight, El-Rufai who was constantly in touch with Uba Sani doesn’t have the moral rights to call him any other name except his bossom friend. He helped El-Rufai when he needed him most beyond disclosure. A part from frustrations, blackmail, mischievous intent, hallucinations, desperate media visibility and attempt to salvage dwindling image, we find no concrete reasons for such lies, fabrications and innuendos.
11. “For eight years, the people of Kaduna State suffered your tyrannical rule, false leadership, insecurity, debt burden. We later realised that at a great cost to us that it was unhealthy for the common good for you to remain around power circle for too long”. El-Rufai frustrations are increasingly becoming painful because he is no longer in charge of our destiny which translates to the begging of his political wilderness”.
12. Let us state without blinking an eye lid to state this as declaration that El-Rufai has been accused of personalisation of public tilt so brazenly to the detriment of the society. A peep to the financial records of the institutions he superintended, Bureau for Public Enterprises, FCTA Ministry and Kaduna State presents a gory scenario. The situation could evoke tears sorrow and blood. What is more, while the conditions of the people got depressed he (accidental public servants of fortunes) became increased to a larger than life size. Suspected of owning hundreds of houses and choice lands in the country and abroad. He is reputed to have acquired unfathomable wealth plundered. Nigerian citizens are not going to allow him to escape further scrutiny from the law enforcement agents and judicial scrutiny.
13. His belated attempt to cover up the misdemeanour the disinformation without stating the issues truthfully itself is another fiasco and a bigger disaster for someone like El-Rufai. Over the years, he is known for flagrant disrespect to court orders and notoriety in overwhelming disregard to the rights of the poor. And above all his penchant for rascality is second to none.
13. We must state there is a sinister plot by El-Rufai and remnants of his hangers own aimed towards frustrating the process to hold him accountable for his past misdeed. The arguments he dished out in the media are completely without merit and baseless. He must not be allowed to subvert the cause of justice. We must state without fear of contradiction that El-Rufai known for his gross disrespect to rule of law and court orders, may be trying to perpetuate a gross miscarriage of justice by trying to blackmail the Kaduna State Government, law enforcement agencies and the Judiciary by making preemptive utterances against all the parties above in order to either evade prosecution or escape prosecution. His new found energy is tailored towards the agenda stated above.
14. It is unfortunate that since the people of Kaduna State demanded for accountability over his stewardship as Governor of the he tends to look for excuses, scapegoats, exiguous defences and blaming everyone and everything instead of looking at himself in the mirror. We therefore, we have no choice than to excoriate his record of bad governance and thousands of death witnessed under his watch.”Let no one doubt our resolve to expose the antics of El-Rufai in this respect among other anachronistic steps, he has taken all these years, by himself and paid agents are outstanding for only one thing; pathologically playing the ostrich in a failed self redemption gambit to cover up outrageous acts of day light malfeasance.”
15. While not holding brief for anybody in the government of Kaduna State or its agents, it is gratifying to state that we the citizens have verified every piece of evidence in the public domain against El-Rufai and came to the logical conclusion that his record in public service is a historic tragedy and monumental catastrophe for our country. We therefore, come to the logical conclusion of commending every Nigerian citizen that refused to be compromised, intimidated, cajoled, blackmailed and stampeded in the cover up gambit of the accidental governor or his agents.
16. It is very glaring that El-Rufai wanted to use Governor Uba Sani as a stooge to cover up the misdemeanour of his immediate past Government of the state. Undoubtedly, the intellectual midget is very jittery, knowing that people are beginning to ask what El-Rufai and his court jesters have done with the billions of naira that accrued to the state as internally generated revenue, allocation from the federation account, millions of naira domestic and foreign dollars collected as loans.
17 “At this juncture, we must state that, the embarrassing malfeasance the federal government of Nigeria, the National Assembly and anti corruption agencies must revisit is the fraudulent and disdainful privatisation of Nitel and outsourcing of its management superintended by El-Rufai during his infamous tenure as head of the Bureau for Public Enterprises. Prior to the involvement of PENTASCOPE in the Nitel deal in the vampire feasting of our national patrimony. Every step taken by El-Rufai the undertaker was designed to fail. And indeed, the audacious dinosaur deal failed, culminating in the lost millions of dollars and billions of naira. The unspoken truth is that Nitel had N15 billion in it is confers as treasury bills, N6billion naira in its foreign accounts, 15 million US Dollars in its foreign accounts and 24 million US dollars of sold NITEL shares in INTELSAT. By the time Nigerian government realized the level of fraud that transpired and revoked the PENTASCOPE fraud, less than three years later, NITEL without adding a single block or a cable had to borrow to pay salaries in its 40 years of existence then. The most questionable startling matter was against all wise counseling and legal advice, rejection and criticism, El-Rufai imposed PENTASCOPE an unregistered entity on Nigeria”.
18. As things stand, El-Rufai seems to be leaving in denial, what ever illusionary agenda he is plotting. The people are conscious of everything, and are ready to openly show him the exit door from the political scene even before 2027 general election. Political deviant and vassal of catastrophic agenda running amok is merely a postponement of reality that cannot endure the test of time.
The patriotic citizens, lovers of democracy and indeed, Nigerians are sincerely waiting for the response of relevant national institutions on this matter. Because no amount of shameless grandstanding and shadow chasing of a drowning man who can to stop investigation, prosecution of the mastermind of the demise of Nitel and other national assets sold out to cronies and ten percenters. We are ready to use the immunity of an open court to ensure that justice is done to the people of Kaduna State and the hapless people of Nigeria on a grand scale. “If we neglect this golden opportunity to ensure recovery of looted monies and assets from the real bandit of treasury and other matters, in future our children are going to suffer from enjoying the long denied benefits of good governance by the accidental minister and irritant ex governor named El-Rufai.”
COMRADE SALISU ISA
Northern Resistance Front
COMRADE DANJUMA THOMAS BAHAGO
Kaduna Discussion Circle
Chairman
