A Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has stated that his administration governed without discrimination, insisting that the law applied equally to all groups regardless of religion or ethnicity. He maintained that no one could accuse him of granting exemptions on the basis of faith.
He stated that some communities in southern Kaduna felt entitled to special treatment, but he enforced the law strictly, just as he did in Zangon Kataf, a predominantly Muslim area. He noted that even members of his own faith considered him an adversary because of his uncompromising approach to governance.
He said in an interview with Channels TV, “When you are governing 10 million people as I did in Kaduna, you must not discriminate between A and B. Nobody can blackmail me that because he’s a Christian, the law doesn’t apply to him. Okay? There are people in southern Kaduna that feel entitled to behave in a certain way, and I didn’t take it. I dealt with them just as the Zangon Kataf people who thought that they could do anything they want and get over it. We dealt with them. Zangon Kataf people are Muslims like me, but I didn’t take any nonsense from them. Go and ask them. They consider me an enemy.”
