₦airaland Forum

SpyAC:
hope you will not cry fowls when it hppns in opposite direction?

SLAP44:
Tonye, you are fighting a losing battle complaining about what the governor is doing in his state. Allow northerners to cry about that or remain silent if it suits them.

You should be more concerned about the serious marginalization of your own south south from the central government under Buharri. You should be concerned about the Ogoni clean up failure and the militarization of the south south on the excuse of fighting militancy and cultists while allowing the bandits up north determine their operating terms and conditions forcefully.

First remove the log in your own eyes before trying to remove the speck in the eyes of Kaduna people.

Naijaepic:
Can you use this same pen to examine the dividend of democracy to Muslims in both Ekiti and ondo state begins 1999.

Let see what you dig out.

Thanks.

TonyeBarcanista:
Simple! Raise the awareness so it can be known before it is taken further.

TonyeBarcanista:
THE BRAZEN ACT OF MARGINALISATION OF CHRISTIANS IN KADUNA STATE BY GOVERNOR ELRUFAI

By Tamunotonye Inioribo @TonyeBarcanista

Kaduna state, a beautiful state located in the heart of the northwest, is popularly referred to as a miniature Nigeria. This is because the state has a sharp religious demographical spread of Islam and Christianity adherents between the northern and southern zones of the respectively similar to what is obtained in Nigeria.

Muslim-Christian Demography
Kaduna has 23 local government areas spread across the northern senatorial zone, central senatorial zone and southern senatorial zone. Twelve of these 23 local government areas are predominantly Muslims while eleven are predominantly Christians. The state is also constitutionally divided into three senatorial zones, namely; northern, central and southern zones.

The northern senatorial zone, also called zone 1, consists of eight local government areas namely; Ikara, Kudan, Kubau, Lere, Makarfi , Sabon-Gari, Soba and Zaria local government areas. Of the eight local government areas in this zone, only Lere local government area is predominantly Christian, while the other seven are predominantly Muslims.

The central senatorial district, also called zone 2, is made up of seven local government areas namely; Birnin-Gwari, Chikun, Giwa, Igabi, Kaduna north, Kaduna south and Kajuru local government areas. All of these seven local government areas are predominantly Muslims except Chikun and Kajuru local government areas that are predominantly Christians.

The southern senatorial zone, also called zone 3, is made up of eight local government areas. They are; Jaba, Jama'a, Kachia, Kagarko, Kaura, Kauru, Sanga and Zango-Kataf local government areas. All these eight local government areas in this zone are predominantly Christian.

The official population of Kaduna state was put at 6,113,503 with spread as follows;
Northern Zone (Zone 1)
Ikara LGA -194,723
Kubau LGA - 280,704
Kudan LGA - 138,956
Lere LGA - 339,740
Makarfi LGA - 146,574
Sabon-Gari LGA - 291,358
Soba LGA - 291,173
Zaria LGA - 406,990
Total: 2,090,218
Central Zone (Zone two)
Birnin-Gwari LGA 258,581
Chikun LGA - 372,272
Giwa LGA - 292,384
Igabi LGA - 430,753
Kaduna North LGA - 364,575
Kaduna South LGA - 402,731)
Kajuru LGA - 109,810
Total: 2,231,106
Southern Zone (Zone three)
Jaba LGA - 155,973
Jama’a LGA - 278,202
Kachia LGA - 252,568
Kagarko LGA - 239,058
Kaura LGA - 174,626
Kauru LGA - 221,276
Sanga LGA - 151,485
Zangon-Kataf LGA - 318,991
Total: 1,792,179

From official population as seen above, the Muslim predominant north has 2,090,218, the central zone has 2,231,106 population and the Christian predominant south zone has 1,792,179 population, but there is no official fact to ascertain the true population of Christians and Muslims in the state. Nonetheless, the state governor, mallam Nasir Elrufai, a Muslim from the northern senatorial district, argued that the religious demography in the state is 70-30 in favor of the Muslims. The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), the umbrella body of the predominately Christian southern Kaduna people, put the religious demography at 50-50. While neutral observers posited that the religious demography in Kaduna state should be between an evenly 50-50 spread, or a 55-45 spread favor of the Muslims.

Political Marginalization Under Governor Nasir Elrufai
Despite the predominance of the Christian population in eleven out of the twenty three local government areas, the Kaduna state government under Governor Nasir Elrufai, a Muslim, chose to perpetuate a brazen act of marginalisation by excluding the state's Christian population from participating in the affairs of the government since the commencement of his second term. For the first time in the history of Kaduna state, no Christian is found in any of the principal positions across the three arms of government and the civil service.

Governor Nasir Elrufai started the marginalisation in 2018 when he broke the traditional Muslim-Christian ticket or Christian-Muslim ticket in any gubernatorial contests to nominate Hajiyya Hadiza Sabuwa Balarabe, a fellow Muslim as his running mate for the 2019 gubernatorial election after his former deputy, Arc Bala Bantex, a Christian, opted to run for the Senate to represent the people of Kaduna south senatorial district under the platform of All Progressive Congress.

After his victory at the hotly contested Kaduna state 2019 gubernatorial election against Honourable Ashiru Kudan of Peoples Democratic Party, Governor Elrufai shut out Christians in the state from the running of government. This he did by ensuring that only Muslims are appointed as senior principal officers in the government. This is aside the fact that himself and the deputy governor are Muslims.

The principal government officers are;
Secretary to the State Government - Mallam Balarabe Abbas Lawal
Chief of Staff to the Governor - Muhammad Sani Abdullah
Kaduna state Head of Service - Hajiyya Bariatu Yusuf Mohammed
Principal Private Secretary - Dr. Salisu Suleiman.

No Christian Among The Entire Presiding And Principal Officers In Kaduna House of Assembly
The marginalisation continues in the legislative arm of government with no single Christian as a member of any of the presiding and principal offices . The Speaker of the House, Honourable Yusuf Tanimu Zailani, the Deputy Speaker Honourable Muktar Isa Hazo, the Majority Leader Alhaji Haruna M A Inuwa, the Chief Whip, Alhaji Idris Abdullahi, the Deputy Majority Leader Alhaji Shehu Yunusa and Deputy Chief Whip Alhaji Salisu Isah, are all Muslims. Meanwhile, the clerk of the Kaduna state House of Assembly, Bello Zubairu is also a Muslim.
Also The Judiciary...
The head of Kaduna state judicial arm of government and Chief Judge of the state, Justice Muhammad Lawal Bello, is also a Muslim.
As if that is not enough, the only two ministers from Kaduna state in the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari, Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance, and Muhammad Mahmoud, the minister of environment were chosen from the Muslim population.

The development in Kaduna state is indeed a bad omen. It is bad that a state with significant Christian population that are predominant in eleven out of the state's twenty three local government areas, has no senior principal government official across all the three arms of government of the state. What is more disturbing is that Governor Nasir Elrufai, the perpetrator of this brazen act of religious marginalization in Kaduna state, is aspiring to run as presidential candidate at the Nigeria's Presidential election at the termination of his second term in 2023.

Written by Tamunotonye Inioribo|| I can be reached at tonyebarcanista@gmail.com

TonyeBarcanista:
Haruna, from your name I could tell your faith. The problem is not your faith, the problem is YOU!

In public service there is need to carry everyone along and make them feel part and parcel of administration irrespective of faith or ethnicity.

Why are some of you like this? How would you feel if your father call his kids for meeting and left you behind?

nextdoor84:
Just keep quiet if you've got nothing meaningful to say. What's the percentage of muslims on the Plateau? They hold no majority in any of the local government areas there: unless in Wase Lga, where they should be like 35%
Dont just compare Kaduna to Plateau abeg!

The only solution and respite would come only when they have a state to call their own.

SLAP44:
Tonye, you are fighting a losing battle complaining about what the governor is doing in his state. Allow northerners to cry about that or remain silent if it suits them.

You should be more concerned about the serious marginalization of your own south south from the central government under Buharri. You should be concerned about the Ogoni clean up failure and the militarization of the south south on the excuse of fighting militancy and cultists while allowing the bandits up north determine their operating terms and conditions forcefully.

First remove the log in your own eyes before trying to remove the speck in the eyes of Kaduna people.

HarunaWest:
Oga nobody supported GEJ reach me in 2011, in 2015, I supported Buhari cos corruption software was installed in Naija by GEJ, but by 2019, I guess no one wanted Buhari, I didn't vote for him, intact I saw his failure by 2017, so I was busy kicking my wounds..
Not everyone in the North is tribalistic what they want is just Good governance. The politicians just have a way of evoking emotions and manipulating them through religion to carry out their agenda.

SpyAC:
If GEJ has appointed all christians as ur de factor father Buhari and his partner in crime Elrufia is doing, would you hv kept quiet?

TonyeBarcanista:
Sir, the problem is not office of Governor, the problem is shutting out a group from holding any position as Deputy Governor, SSG, COS, Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Majority Leader, Chief Whip, Deputy Majority Leader, Deputy Whip, House Clerk and even CJ of the State. Also worse is shutting them out from ministers even when there is two slot.

My brother, I'm not particular about it because Christians are affected, I am because it is the right thing to do.

Tomorrow, a Christian may cite the precedent and do worse to Muslims... God forbid!

BTW we are talking of people predominantly occupying 11 out of 23 LGAs

HarunaWest:
You can see problem with people like you, I have already stated my opinion as regards religious and political interests. Why then are you compelling me to accept your line of thiught?s?
Why are you so upset that I am different?
You better start having a change of kindest towards people you meet from the other side. Good day.

wman:
El-Rufai is a wicked, tribalistic bigot that must not be given more power than he has.

He has made several statements regarding the Boko Haram crisis, Fulani herdsmen crisis and others that proved so.

His wife and children hates the Igbos with a passion and they make tribalistic statements about them on Twitter.

They don't even rate the Yorubas at all.

Such a wicked, crafty man will be more dangerous than Buhari at the helm of affairs.

He might be more educated and sound than Buhari, but that doesn't make him less of a dangerous bigot.

As for those mentioning Wike, two wrongs don't make a right. One of the reasons why Nigeria won't progress is that people always turn a blind eye to their own party while criticising others.

MichaelDuf:
What is our business with northern Christians?

Are they no longer one nigeria?

Southwest2023:
Tonyebarcanista. You are from southern Nigeria ijaw precisely. What's your problem with Kaduna.

Does it Christian's in the state complain to you. If truly Christian and Muslim are equal in number why Christian not sponsor their people to climb the seat of power in the state.

SpyAC:
man we re in Nigeria, and if I can remember or you should hlp and remind me what the constitution says abt inclusion of people/tribe in politics.

TonyeBarcanista:
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So if your neighbor's house is burning you will sit at home because it is not your house and therefore not your business? Why are you reasoning like an infant na?

HarunaWest:
See the problem with Nigeria. They so called people appointed, aren't they from Kaduna? Does religion of the person really matter?
The important thing is that they carry out their function properly. If they err, they should be sacked and replaced but that law doesn't hold forte in Nigeria. As far as am aware, they is calm in Kaduna politics, they aren't complaining so I don't understand why Tonye is crying over spilt milk. I was in Kaduna recently and Elrufai is working whether you like it or not you can't hate the man. If the trusted people carrying out this developments are Muslims, so be it.

SLAP44:
Tonye, you are fighting a losing battle complaining about what the governor is doing in his state. Allow northerners to cry about that or remain silent if it suits them.

You should be more concerned about the serious marginalization of your own south south from the central government under Buharri. You should be concerned about the Ogoni clean up failure and the militarization of the south south on the excuse of fighting militancy and cultists while allowing the bandits up north determine their operating terms and conditions forcefully.

First remove the log in your own eyes before trying to remove the speck in the eyes of Kaduna people.

HarunaWest:
See the problem with Nigeria. They so called people appointed, aren't they from Kaduna? Does religion of the person really matter?
The important thing is that they carry out their function properly. If they err, they should be sacked and replaced but that law doesn't hold forte in Nigeria. As far as am aware, they is calm in Kaduna politics, they aren't complaining so I don't understand why Tonye is crying over spilt milk. I was in Kaduna recently and Elrufai is working whether you like it or not you can't hate the man. If the trusted people carrying out this developments are Muslims, so be it.

OpinionCounts:
Please forward this your post to MURIC too.

cashtips:
When Jesus Christ was offered Political post in John 6:14-15 He declined the offer for some reasons e.g the Earth has been handed to the wicked one Job9:24 but for solutions to mankind's problems He Prayed for God Kingdom to come

Dpharisee:
You are right, if Washington Post had published this they would have been calling Elrufai names

SLAP44:
Tonye, you are fighting a losing battle complaining about what the governor is doing in his state. Allow northerners to cry about that or remain silent if it suits them.

You should be more concerned about the serious marginalization of your own south south from the central government under Buharri. You should be concerned about the Ogoni clean up failure and the militarization of the south south on the excuse of fighting militancy and cultists while allowing the bandits up north determine their operating terms and conditions forcefully.

First remove the log in your own eyes before trying to remove the speck in the eyes of Kaduna people.

Maduawuchukwu:
Abeg dont bring your emotional IPOB wailing here. Stay on the topic or get out. This your behaviour is why we no longer support you guys in Igbo land.