From: Femi Oyelola, Kaduna
The Southern Kaduna Leadership Council (SKLC) said it is desirous of developing harmonious and peaceful relations with all the citizens and people of Kaduna State, calling on the present government under the leadership of Senator Uba Sani not to follow the path of his predecessor.
This was contained in a statement signed by Sold Chairman, Mr Ishaya Dary Akau after its regular meeting held in Kafanchan yesterday.
The Group said the speech by Mal. Nasir El-Rufai, the immediate past governor of Kaduna State to some religious clerics noting that the video of the speech has gone viral and made public certain issues that have hitherto remained in the domain of conjecture and hypothesis among Nigerians generally, but which the victims of El-Rufai’s actions have lived and experienced over a period of eight years.
They lamented the system of governance by exclusion practiced by El-Rufai was deliberate against the people of Southern Kaduna.
“Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai set out deliberately to misinform the Nigerian Public and the world, and waged false propaganda amongst certain religious circles, to the effect that the people of Southern Kaduna who are mainly Christians did not vote for the APC.
“The voting figures cast in Federal, State and Local Government elections in Kaduna State between 2015 and 2023 bear testimony to the fact that Nasir El-Rufai deliberately deceived those in the APC who are not Muslims of his actions.”
The group added that the people of Southern Kaduna will not use the statements of Nasir El Rufai to determine how they live and relate with Muslims, settlers or visitors to Southern Kaduna,saying they are peaceful people and will follow peaceful and lawful means in pursuit of their goal of surviving as a people under the regime of hostility and hate instituted and handed down as a legacy by Nasir El-Rufai in Kaduna State.
“The Southern Kaduna people are requesting protection from the Government of Kaduna State, the Federal Government of Nigeria, the African Union and the United Nations.
“We call on the international community, to constitute a visitation panel to ascertain the genocide orchestrated and supervised under the Islamist regime run by Nasir El Rufai as Governor of Kaduna State between 2015 and 2023.”
