The Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, said the relationship between him and Governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai, has broken down irretrievably as a result of ideological differences. 

Sani disclosed this in an interview with Vanguard on Monday.

Here are five things he has against El-Rufai;

1. He is practicing double standards

   “pursuing capitalist and conservative policies to drive away the poor and the less privileged from the state as opposed to his welfarist and progressive disposition. It was wrong for the governor to remove beggars and hawkers from the streets of Kaduna without making alternative arrangements for them.”

2. He is reducing his political influence

   “The governor was trying to reduce his political clout by giving recognition and political patronage to another politician – whom he had defeated in the last election. Well, it is my wish that we work together for the betterment of Kaduna State, our party and Nigeria. But it is the governor that is working against me.”

3. El-Rufai has taken some wrong steps

   “Look, let me tell you the governor has taken some steps which are wrong. He banned beggars from the streets but they are back, he banned hawkers but they are back on the streets, he started demolishing houses but was forced to discontinue because the people rose up against him and many other anti-people policies.”

4. He is hypocritical

   “The governor wants to give a false image of good life and sanity in Kaduna to the make it appear that everybody is rich and living comfortably because there are no beggars and hawkers on the streets when in reality they have only been pushed out to go and suffer somewhere else.”

5. He wants to alter the balance of life

   “But my position is that they must remain on the street until their issues are addressed. As far as I am concerned, the beggars need to be chasing after us, the rich people, knocking our windshields of our vehicles and constantly remind us that things are not well in our land,”