Kaduna State Governor, Mallam
Nasir el-Rufai, has refuted speculations that he was planning to replace his
deputy, Mr Barnabas Bala-Yusuf, with a former Secretary to the State
Government, Alhaji Lawal Yakawada.
His spokesman, Samuel Aruwan,
said the report was aimed at causing division in the state along ethnic and
religious lines.
“A piece of despicable fiction,
titled ‘Emergency meeting of the strategic committee on political developments
in Kaduna State,’ is circulating on social media.
“It purports to be the minutes of
a meeting chaired by Governor Nasir el-Rufai where some key officials of the
Kaduna State Government were present.
“The whole drift of the
fabricated minutes is to stoke division along the lines of region and religion.
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,” he said.
The spokesman appealed to the
citizens of the state to disregard the “fake news,” noting that 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,” he further stated.
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