Kaduna Central senator, Shehu Sani, has decried the leadership style of the state governor, Nasir el-Rufai, following the political unrest rocking the state.
Sani was reacting to his recent invitation by the state Commissioner of Police, Austin Iwar, to the command to answer some questions.
The senator, who spoke to our correspondent in the wake of the invitation, alleged that the government was using all means to intimidate him.
He noted that the government and some political ‘bigwigs’ in the state were plotting measures to tarnish his reputation and silence him by engaging the security agents.
Sani maintained that the administration of el-Rufai had been abusive and intimidating.
“Those who abuse power by thinking that they can use security forces to set us up in order to silence us or tarnish our reputation have taken on the wrong person. They will always fail as they usually do,” he quipped.
Recall that the state police commissioner, in a statement on Thursday, said he had written to the Senator, asking him to appear at the Command Headquarters in Kaduna for questioning on April 30.
Sani had recently accused Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai of tyranny, describing him as a ‘military administrator.’
The All Progressives Congress lawmaker, in his reaction to the demolition of an APC faction’s secretariat, a building belonging to Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi, in Kaduna State, said El-Rufai was only angered by his suspension from the party.
“What is happening in Kaduna is simply tyranny. We don’t have an elected governor; we have a military administrator, one who thinks that everything should go his own way.
“He engineered the party to suspend us, to suspend me. That is about a year and half ago.
When the suspension (el-Rufai’s suspension) came, he became very angry, moving about bulldozers to bring down buildings,”
he said.