el-Rufai Can’t Fix What He Helped Destroy – Jagaba

*Says don’t fall for failed politicians rebranding themselves for power

By; JACOB ONJEWU DICKSON

Southern Kaduna activist, Nasiru Jagaba has accused former Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai of ethnic exclusion, divisive politics, and complicity in the insecurity that claimed hundreds of lives in the region during his tenure.

In a statement made available on Friday, Jagaba warned the non-Hausa/Fulani ethnic groups in Northern Nigeria not to fall for “failed politicians rebranding themselves for power.”

“el-Rufai is a known sadist, a political cheetah whose spots are too glaring to ignore,” he said.

Jagaba who was a former National coordinator of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU) Youth-Wing, alleged that el-Rufai dismantled the state’s fragile political balance, sidelined Southern Kaduna from government appointments, eroded traditional institutions, and enforced a Muslim-Muslim ticket “as a tool of religious supremacy and ethnic humiliation.”

He claimed the former governor’s rhetoric emboldened armed herdsmen and Fulani militias to carry out targeted killings, sexual violence, and displacement in Southern Kaduna.

Jagaba also accused el-Rufai of neglecting the region in infrastructure and development despite billions in allocations and loans.

On el-Rufai recent attacks on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Jagaba said the ex-governor was driven by “personal pain” after being denied a ministerial post.

“Tinubu has given Southern Kaduna a Federal University, a Federal Medical Centre, and a Military Brigade Command in just two years, more than el-Rufai gave us in eight,” he stated.

He urged his people to negotiate for projects, appointments, and justice before elections, warning that, “we will no longer be pawns, we will be players shaping our future.”