Immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has accused his successor, Governor Uba Sani, and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu, of financially empowering bandits.
El-Rufai made the allegation while reacting to a report of a kidnapping incident in Kagarko Local Government Area, where 39 people, including a nursing mother, were abducted.
An X user, @realYusufTukur, had shared the report, lamenting that it would not gain traction because El-Rufai was no longer the governor. He also accused Ribadu of politicizing security.
He wrote: “will not trend, since @elrufai, the man they’ve sworn to hate, is not the Governor.
“Meanwhile, NSA @NuhuRibadu is busy playing politics with security”.
Yusuf was reacting particularly to a recent incident where the daredevil criminal elements attacked a community located in Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Wakilin Fulani of Janjala, Alhaji Atah Adamu Wakili, a nursing mother and 37 other residents of the community were reportedly kidnapped during the unprovoked attack.
Sharing Yusuf’s post, El-rufai claimed that the kidnappers “will be paid to release them early, and then the NSA will hand the victims over to the state government in colorful ceremony. Propaganda trumps sensible governance.”
According to the former governor, such moves empower the bandits financially, resulting in the purchase of more sophisticated weapons.
“The terrorists, thus further financially empowered, will purchase even more sophisticated weapons and abduct even more people in Kaduna and elsewhere, that is the new ‘modus operandi’ of the geniuses in charge of our state these days”, he added.