By Our Reporter
ABUJA (PRECISE POST) – Former federal lawmaker that represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District at the 8th Senate, Senator Shehu Sani has slammed the erstwhile Kaduna state Governor, Mallam Nasir El’rufai for suddenly adding his voice against President Bola Tinubu’s alleged lopsided appointments, reminding that Kaduna was an apartheid state for eight years that Elrufai reigned as Governor of the state.
Precise Post recalls that Elrufai had taken to his X account on Sunday, while referencing and branding Farooq Kperogi’s opinion article titled “Tinubu’s Buharization of The NNPC – Notes from Atlanta” as “December Message”, warned Tinubu that two wrongs do not make a right and that sensible inclusion always trumps arrogant exclusion.
Irked by this selective remarks and reminding Elrufai of his silence during the nepotic years of Buhari as President of Nigeria between May 29, 2015 to May 29, 2023, Shehu Sani replied him saying: “There were people who were silent when Buhari was fielding political offices with his Kinsmen, and have now found their voice to speak out when the equation doesn’t favour them. Lets not make reference to the nepotism that marginalised Southern Kaduna for eight years. Kaduna was an apartheid state for eight years.
Further recall that in pointing out president Tinubu’s lopsided appointments Kperogi said:
“The Yoruba acquaintance of mine who alerted me to the creeping Yoruba-centric take-over of the NNPC said he was doing so out of a feeling of the same sense of embarrassment that inspired my rage against Buhari’s appointments that favored the North unfairly, especially in the areas of security.
“Tinubu is doing in the economy sector what Buhari did in the security sector. The minister of finance, the governor of the central bank, and every other consequential agency in finance is headed by a Yoruba man. I am not sure Nigeria has ever seen this level of extreme, state-sanctioned ethnocentric domination of a critical segment of national life.
Appointing another Yoruba individual as the head of the NNPC would complete what many already perceive as the ethnic capture of Nigeria’s economic nerve center. It would not only cement Tinubu’s image as an insensitive ethnocrat but also exacerbate public discontent and foster deeper divisions in an already polarized nation.
“If Tinubu is unaware of this burgeoning perception, he needs to awaken to its reality. Leadership is not just about policies and actions; it’s also about managing optics and inspiring confidence in a nation’s collective identity.”
