Mallam Nasir El-rufai, the immediate former governor of Kaduna State, has charged that his successor, Governor Uba Sani, and the National Security Advisor, or NSA, Nuhu Ribadu, have taken actions that give bandits more power.

An X user named @realYusufTukur tweeted a story of a kidnapping occurrence in Kaudna State that resulted in the abduction of over thirty people.

The news “will not trend, since @elrufai, the man they’ve sworn to hate, is not the Governor,” the X user bemoaned in the post.

“NSA @NuhuRibadu is occupied with combining politics and security in the interim.”

Yusuf was responding specifically to a recent event in which a community in Kagarko Local Government Area, Kaduna State, was attacked by daredevil criminal elements.

During the unprovoked attack, Wakilin Fulani of Janjala, Alhaji Atah Adamu Wakili, a nursing mother, and 37 other community members were reportedly abducted.

The kidnappers “will be paid to release them early, and then the NSA will hand the victims over to the state government in colorful ceremony,” El-rufai said, sharing Yusuf’s post. Sensible administration is subordinated to propaganda.

The former governor claims that these actions give the bandits financial leverage, enabling them to acquire increasingly advanced weapons.

“The new modus operandi’ of the geniuses in charge of our state these days is for the terrorists, who will gain even more financial power, to buy even more advanced weapons and kidnap even more people in Kaduna and elsewhere,” he continued.