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WaffenSS:
The christians in kaduna, sponsored by CAN, spent several years demonizing El Rufai as a rabid Muslim fanatic on the basis of some comments he made, which were then twisted by CAN and its media wing to portray Mallam in a bad light. There's nothing Mallam has said that's any worse than what many pastors such as Suleiman say all the time and none of them were deemed out of line by CAN.

Mallam was harassed and embarrassed when he visited kafanchan to commiserate with the people after a clash.

The blood thirsty christians of kasuwan magani started a genocide that saw hundreds of Muslims slaughtered, and the christians blamed Mallam. Then later when the Agom was kidnapped by highwaymen and later murdered, christians completely blamed Mallam and were silent over the hundreds of Muslims kidnapped daily on the highways.

During the elections CAN hatched a plot to ensure every single christian voted PDP to kick Mallam out, and they bought into the lie that kaduna is 50% christian.

Well the results have clearly shown that christians are a minority because they failed to dislodge mallam.

And you lie that there's no christian in a powerful position in the government. Samuel Aruwan is the commissioner for interior and security. That's a powerful position.


As long as CAN and the christian minorities in kaduna will assume an antagonistic position then they'll have to contend with the status they chose for themselves.


You're trying to create an unnecessary controversy because of attention. You should be more concerned with what your Wike is doing in your own neck of the woods.

God bless u sir. After all politics is a game numbers they said.

SLAP44:
Comradeship is not stupidly, you cannot be losing your oil fields, lands and people and be here doing comradeship!

Its sacrifice for people, stop being selfish.

TonyeBarcanista:
I've not lost my land to anyone!

I'm from Okrika, and no part of Okrika, Rivers state and the entire Ijaw nation has been lost to anyone whether overtly or covertly.

Irrespective, I owe it a duty to use my pen to advance humanity cause. I do this not because I am a Christian but because it is the right thing to do. Marginalisation breeds civil unrest

Could you please use the same pen to write about the marginalisation of Muslims in Ondo and Ekiti State.

2by40ft:
If elections are to be conducted 100 times in Kaduna, Muslims will all win but this should not justify the marginalisation of minority in the state or anywhere.

Go and get sense. How did Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa became the governor of Kaduna state in 2010?

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, there is calm in Kaduna politics today, 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.

Better shut up, if it were the other way around will your MURIC not raise complain? Did they not clamoure that Amotekun is Christian based & is targeted against muslims.

Genoa:
Baba face your state, in as much as Mallam El Rufai is a religion bigot, I feel your post is politically motivated.

Let's Kaduna people speak for themselves.

I think you should be more concerned about Wike tyrannical behaviours in you state.

El Rufai is no different from Wike.

Will you keep quiet if it were other way round?

Dilluted:
This Christian and Muslim argument again, jobless, tribalistic and religious Nigerian youths, pls get a life

Diversity is the key thing

Bialegend:
Go and get sense. How did Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa became the governor of Kaduna state in 2010?

Keep residing in 2010, i can't argue with backwards minds

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, there is calm in Kaduna politics today, 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.

Stop lying ;who says they are not complaining?
God is watching everything that is happening, at His own time he shall judge everything.

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

God bless you Sir; you have said it all, the truth is certainly bitter, but God at His own time will judge everything.

TheKingIsHere:
Lol, bros how far?

I am fine and you? Quite sometime now

ntyce:
Which peculiarities, Plateau is another example..

pls let's be guided. Are you in plateau? Have you stayed on the plateau.?
Don't talk ignorant because you heard others concocting false information. Can you juxtaposed Plateau and Kaduna LGA by LGA, population like wise?

akaahs:
Why not help us put the facts side by side of the two states?, let see how U ll make sense

Unlike barcanista, I don't have d energy for promoting divisiveness and bigotry. I'm a promoter of peace and unity. So if u really want to know, u can help ur self. Or rather ask tonye to help u

SLAP44:
Actually, it's your house that started burning first since 1973 when they started drilling oil in Bayelsa, desecrating sacred forests, polluting the lands and waters and making the people poor and sick.

You will be seen as a wayward man to start quenching your neighbor's house fire of 2018 when your kids are roasting in your own house fire since 1972 !

Wicked truth

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?

Bros will it be illegal or out of place for Kaduna State House Of Assembly to pass a bill that is coined like the Federal Character Principle of Fairness and Equitable Distribution, but customized for the Kaduna people in order to solve this problem? Or are there no Christians in the Kaduna State House of Assembly?

ebbo:
Big fat lie.

I schooled at ABU for 6yrs, after service I spent another 10yrs in Kaduna until 2015 when I relocated, so I know what I am talking about.

I'm still waiting for the day Muslims and Christians will go to war in that country called Nigeria. Please, the winner should kill all the losers ! Do not take prisoners ! Wipe each other out! Make it a fight to the finish! No hold bare! Useless people!

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?

Answer this question with sincerity. Is Rivers State a Christian State?

mutvy:
I'm still waiting for the day Muslims and Christians will go to war in that country called Nigeria. Please, the winner should kill all the losers ! Do not take prisoners ! Wipe each other out! Make it a fight to the finish! No hold bare! Useless people!

You must be an atheist

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

By Tamunotonye Inioribo @TonyeBarcanista

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

My brother, i agree with you on this.

The Kaduna state gov is an unrepentant tribal bully. El Rufai can never become president of Nigeria.

El-Rufai hates Christians and that's just the simple truth.
Say NO to marginalization.

If I should speak anything, I don't know what will comes out of my mouth. Let me JUST keep quiet.
I strongly believe that, Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven.(John 14:6, John 3:2-21, colossians 3 :3-4, 2 Corinthians 5 :17, romans 10:9-14, 1 john 1:8-10, 1 john 4 :7-16, 1 john 5:4-5).



Jesus is Lord.

ThatFairGuy:
You must be an atheist

A stupid one

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, there is calm in Kaduna politics today, 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.

Really? This was the exact word when Buhari started same.. Terrible lots

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.

Very wrong. Thats not an ijaw name

HarunaWest:
Okay lemme burst yah head. I grew up in a liberal home..I attended a Catholic primary school, most of my friends are Christian, my childhood was spent in Lagos state amongst largely Christian neighbours, I speak Yoruba than even my dialect I go to churches, I attend weddings in churches, I attend burials even carry Coffin join during my NYSC @ Abia State. Even I was in KD sometime last year, precisely for a wedding @ Zango Kataf. Having stated all these facts, do I look like someone that gives a damn about religious outlook.?

YES COS I KNOW MANY OTHERS LIKE YOU

Evercurious:
YES COS I KNOW MANY OTHERS LIKE YOU

then that means you know nothing..sorry though

HarunaWest:
then that means you know nothing..sorry though

I simply know your type

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.

I regret sharing same country with you. u are suppose to exist as lowe r animals like rat, lizards etc

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

God will bless you for this write up. see, my prayers/ blessing will not die/end in you. it will follow ur generation upon generation. there is an adage in my tribe(urhobo), it says" someone who is shaking coconut tree, is shaking his own head" because no coconut will fall. hear this, HELL RUFAI is heaping cause on himself and his generation. the whole world knows he is ANTI CHRISTIAN/ANTI CHRIST. His time is coming. it hurts me more seeing the operations/persecution of Christians in Kaduna but there is nothing I can do, u av heard this, God's time is d best. live that Midget of Kaduna to do his mind. his days is numbered

Evercurious:
I simply know your type

well I dont know your type