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| Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai |
Governor of Kaduna
State, Nasir El-Rufai said on Tuesday night that he has never quarrelled with,
nor slapped his Deputy, Barnabas Bala.
The
Punch report continues:
The
governor said Bala has been his friend since they both attended Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria in Kaduna State several years ago.
While
the governor had First class honours, studying Quantity Survey, his Deputy,
graduated with First Class honours in Architecture from the same Ahmadu Bello University,
Zaria.
Reacting
to the rumoured fight between him and his deputy, El-Rufai said he had
known his deputy since 1976 at ABU and that nothing has ever led them to fight.
The
root of alleged fisticuffs between El-Rufai and Bala was that the Governor and
the deputy have been having a cold war over alleged plans by the governor to
sack top civil servants in the state.
But
El-Rufai, in an interactive session with select journalists simply laughed over
the allegation, saying that the rumour mongers were not intelligent enough.
The
governor explained that if the alleged fisticuffs took place in the executive
meeting as portrayed by the rumour mongers, there would have been video or
photo evidence of the fight by some executive members of the State
councils, “because nobody is prevented from entering the meeting with his or
her phone”.
El-Rufai
said, “I have known Bala Bantex since 1976, I never had an argument with
him, I respect his opinions, and each time I travelled out of the
country, I make him an Acting governor, he signs documents on my behalf.
“We
chair executive council meetings together, we operate like partners and now
people want to create enmity between us. I am of age, I can’t
descend so low. This rumour is completely false, it is created to cause
division.
“We
never discussed retrenchment of workers in the state as claimed by the rumour
mongers.
“I have never slapped
anyone in my life. I have never argued with Bala, I don’t slap people, I
fight people with mouth,” El-Rufai said.
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