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Shehu Sani blasts El-Rufai over Kaduna killings
Former Kaduna Central lawmaker, Shehu Sani has blasted immediate past governor of the state, Malam Nasir El-Rufai over the killings of Christians in the state in the eight years he was at the helms of affairs.
Sani who represented the Kaduna Central senatorial district in the 8th National Assembly, while reacting to a viral video where El-Rufai claimed that the success of the Muslim-Muslim ticket of President Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima in the 2023 presidential election, shows that Muslims have taken over Nigeria, described the former governor a a bigot.
Sani who lamented the killing of a number of Christian clerics in Kaduna during El-Rufai’s eight years as governor, accused him of not visiting the families of the deceased for condolence all through his tenure.
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Posting on his Twitter handle along with pictures of some of the slain clerics on Thursday, Sani said:
“Imagine a Governor of a State for eight years and these high profile clerics were murdered by terrorists in his state, and he never for once bothered to visit their families for condolence or even speak personally on the tragedies.”
“If I don’t find a word bigger than a ‘bigot’, I’ll coin it.”
Imagine a Governor of a State for eight years and these High profile Clerics were murdered by terrorists in his state,and he never for once bothered to visit their families for condolence Or even speak personally on the tragedies.If I don’t find a word bigger than a ‘bigot’,I’ll… pic.twitter.com/uHKOKE9x9G
— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) June 8, 2023
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