Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has debunked
rumours that he is planning to replace his deputy, Mr Bala Bantex, ahead of the
2019 elections.
Governor El-Rufai
faulted the report, saying there is no plan to replace Bantex with a former
Secretary to the State Government, Lawal Yakawada. This followed a secret meeting of some key
political appointees, allegedly chaired by the governor, where it was decided
that the deputy governor, who is from Southern Kaduna, would be replaced with
Yakawada, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
A statement
issued by El-Rufai’s senior special assistant on media and publicity, Samuel
Aruwan, however, described the report as “hoax” aimed at causing division in
the state along ethnic and religious lines.
“The whole drift of the fabricated minutes is to stoke division along
the lines of region and religion,” the statement said. “This fake news is
clearly the handiwork of desperados unhappy at the successes achieved in
stabilising Southern Kaduna and restoring the normalcy that ordinary citizens
need to build their lives.” Aruwan appealed to people of the state to disregard
the report, saying the “sinister motive” and the agenda behind it was to create
religious and ethnic tension in Kaduna State.
“We will not allow
these forces of darkness to achieve their goal of setting the state on fire and
dividing people. “Governor El-Rufai will never be distracted from implementing
his development agenda across the length and breadth of Kaduna State. “We
hereby appeal to citizens of the state to disregard the purported minutes as
the divisive hoax of people frightened that the old order of division and
spoils that sustained them is being crushed,” the statement said.
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