Ministerial Nominees: Don’t confirm El-Rufai – Shehu Sani tells Senators

Senator who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the 8th Senate and Civil Rights Activist, Shehu Sani has urged Senators of the 10th Assembly not to confirm Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai.

He tasked the three Senators from Kaduna State to stand in honour and not allow confirmation of the former governor of Kaduna State State for the sake of posterity of the nation.

Sani in a statement he issued on Sunday and made to journalists expressed surprise that El-Rufai’s name reflected on the list as a Ministerial nominee despite his obvious religious colouration that is dangerous to the unity of the nation.

He recalled how Senator Abubakar Sodangi Committee indicted El-Rufai and banned him from holding public office, hence, the Committee report should be respected and El-Rufai’s report should be declined.

The statement read: “The Senate should uphold and respect the 2008 Senator Sodangi Committee that barred him from holdingl-Rufai public office.

“Particularly the 3 Senators from Kaduna State; they must categorically and unambiguously reject Elrufai’s nomination.

“Silence is a great disservice and betrayal of the people of Kaduna state who have suffered under his eight years of tyranny and persecution.

“Nigerian Senators should save the
country from the danger and jeopardy of harbouring, incubating and crowning such a man into the palace of power.

“A man with a track record of religious intolerance, extremism and disrespect for rule of law doesn’t deserve the gavel of approval from the legislature.He doesn’t deserve to be a minister.

“Any opposition Senator that confirms El-Rufai has betrayed the moral conscience of the people of this country; any ruling party Senator that confirms El-Rufai has brought in a destructive agent into the government of Tinubu.

“Confirming El-Rufai as a Minister is a suicidal mission for the Tinubu administration.”