Confirmed: Southern Kaduna Elites Are The Problem Of Their People
I just stumbled on this old video of Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.
What Mallam said in the video about Southern Kaduna elites perfectly tracks with what I said during my Trust TV interview on Monday night and what I wrote in "MY EL-RUFAI STORY’'.
Below Is An Extract.
"When you throw a deeply entrenched and very toxic political culture characterized by elites who exploit their people and use them as political and economic pawns, or better put, as cannon fodder, you might begin to understand why El-Rufai is hated with passion by a significant proportion (to avoid overgeneralization) of Southern Kaduna Christians.
To validate my point, on one occasion, as part of my due diligence, I had a conversation with a well-educated and politically exposed senior citizen - a very vicious and prolific public critic of El-Rufai from Southern Kaduna right in my office. At a point in our conversation, he said (or rather confessed) to me that El-Rufai really did not do anything wrong. He said that the problem he had with El-Rufai was that he (El-Rufai) did not do anything for him as Governor. He ended by saying; ''tell Nasir that I am willing to work with him now". I won't mention his name here out of decency and respect, but I am sure that he will read this. If he denies it, I will mention his name and bring proof.
You can extrapolate and multiply that amongst many other Southern Kaduna elites and leaders, and a clear and scary picture will emerge.
Conclusion
My findings conclusively show that, El-rufai was essentially a victim and an inheritor of decades of entrenched and normalized hatred, intolerance, violence, an aggravated entitlement mentality and indiscipline, as well as a system that had been configured, long before he arrived on the scene, to run on blackmail, self-deceit, victim mentality, rent seeking, and appeasement.
Unfortunately, El-Rufai went in with a borders-blind reformist mindset, intent on bringing about change and making a difference, but in so doing, he upset the apple cart.
Instead of El-Rufai continuing with the tradition and culture of keeping a blind eye, appeasement and settlement of the elites who in turn 'settled' their people with peanuts and fed them with what they wanted them to hear, including who to hate and who to love, such that thus deceived and compromised, they suppressed the problems which had been with them for ages, including insecurity, killings and deaths, he went to deliver the dividends of democracy directly to the people.
That was part of El-Rufai’s sins against Southern Kaduna people.
Please, fact check me."
(Source: MY EL-RUFAI STORY’' By Uche Diala - March 22nd 2026).
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