CATHOLIC community in Kaduna State has called on President Bola Tinubu and Governor Uba Sani to call former governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai to order in order not to set the country into a religious crisis.
The call follows a controversial statement on Muslims dominance in the governance by El-Rufai.
The former Governor is seen in a trending video, telling some Muslim clerics in Hausa language that most Christians in Kaduna did not vote for his party, the All Progressives Congress – APC, hence the reason he orchestrated their exclusion from being even Deputy Governor.
He also said that the APC can win elections without the Christians and that for the same reason, he deliberately excluded Christians in all the top cadres.
However, in an open letter copied to the Presidency and the Governor of Kaduna State, the Nigerian Catholic Diocesan Priests Association – NCDPA, Kaduna State chapter asked Governor Sani to make his official position on El-rufai’s inciting utterances known because he (Sani) was at the event where El-rufai made the controversial statement.
The letter jointly signed by chairmen of Kaduna Archdiocese, Rev. Fr Joseph Gandu, Kafanchan Diocese, Very Rev. Fr Douglas Rock, and Zaria Diocese, Very Rev. Fr Samuel Ameh, the Priests said they expected Uba Sani to use his good office to correct the fallacies that the former governor’s actions and comments have created and propagated in Kaduna State in the past eight years.
