EL RUFAI DEMOLISHES SENATORS HOUSE
The Senator,, whose faction last week, suspended Governor Nasir El-Rufai from the party. Immediately accused the governor of instigasting the action, saying the building was used as the campaign office for the Governor El-Rufai and also the state headquarters of the APC.
Responding to the allegatiions the kaduna State Government acknowledged the demolition of the building, saying the building was pulled down upon failure of the owner to pay ground rent since 2010 and for pubic nuisance, including attracting political thugs.
Senate condemns demolition, asks governor to pay compensation
The Senate in a sharp reaction, condemned the demolition, with the presiding officer and Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, warning that politicians must not overheat the polity ahead of the 2019 elections. Ekweremadu, who noted that demolitions carried out against political rivals should stop, said the government should have taken resort to the courts in pressing its issues against the senator. “This is something we need to watch, as we head towards 2019. We must appeal to politicians not to overheat the system and then imperil our democracy. There is a limit to the patience of our people. “This should be the last of this kind of incident in any part of Nigeria. If people have grievances, they have the court to settle it, and our courts can be trusted to ensure that justice is delivered to whoever justice is due. “I do hope that the governor will make effort to go and rebuild the house or pay him adequate compensation. We condemn the act.” The Senate resolution to condemn the demolition was upon a motion brought to the Senate floor by Senator Shehu Sani, APC, Kaduna Central, who has himself been engaged in a long-running political spat with Governor El-Rufai. Presenting his motion earlier, Senator Sani said: “In the last two and half years, we have been faced with tyranny and open dictatorship in Kaduna State. My constituency office was attacked by violent thugs, and it has also been clear that armed military personnel and policemen have been consistently used by the governor to intimidate and harass people who don’t agree with him.” Expressing concern that Governor El-Rufai projects himself as acting in the best interest of President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Sani said: “It is of concern to us that these actions by the governor had been done in the name of Mr. President. “We will use this opportunity to call on Mr. President to caution his beloved son who has unleashed a reign of terror and has been held in the most despicable and irresponsible way and it is a fact that if this crisis is not in every way nipped in the bud, it will in every way catapult and metamorphose into something bigger.”
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