From Noah Ebije, Kaduna and Sola Ojo, Abuja
The Kaduna State Chapter of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has cautioned the former governor of the state, Nasir El-rufai, to stop spreading falsehood against the population and political realities of Southern Kaduna People. MBF said it was compelled to address recent false and deliberate misleading comments by El-Rufai, during his appearance on Channels Television’s “Politics Today,” where he allegedly diminished the political and demographic weight of Southern Kaduna region.
Addressing a press conference on Friday, the MBF Chairman, Air Commodore John Bako Ajeye (Rtd), noted that El-rufai’s utterances concerning Southern Kaduna, which is an integral part of the Middle Belt community, represented a dangerous escalation in rhetoric and a direct assault on truth and demography of the people.
“Today, we must counter this orchestrated campaign of falsehood and demographic gaslighting targeted at the good people of Southern Kaduna and the Middle Belt Region.
“The former governor’s interview was a master class in deception; a pathetic attempt to rewrite reality and diminish the undeniable political and demographic weight of Southern Kaduna. “Let us be unequivocal in replacing El-Rufai’s fiction with facts. His claim that Christians constitute “not even 25 per cent” of Kaduna State is a fiction, a lie from the pit of hell. Verified data from independent and governmental sources presents a starkly different reality.
“El-Rufai’s attempt to politically diminish Southern Kaduna is not just false, it is the height of ingratitude. The 2023 gubernatorial election, which his protégé, Senator Uba Sani, won by a razor-thin margin of just 10,806 votes, was decisively determined by the votes from Southern Kaduna, which boasts 43.7 per cent of the state’s registered voters.
“For a man who benefitted from a similar coalition in 2015 to now turn around and label the same people as “insignificant” because they roundly rejected his toxic politics of division is a shocking display of arrogance,” Ajeye said.
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