Senator Shehu Sani who represented Kaduna Central in the Eight Senate has described Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s enrolment of his son into Capital School, one of the public schools in Kaduna State as a political stunt for 2023 which he said was clownish, comical and deceptive.
Addressing Journalists in his Kaduna Office yesterday, Senator Sani; “His action was simply a 2023 political stunt set up for the media and people who reside outside Kaduna. For people who reside in Kaduna, they know what public primary school looks like in the state, they know where they are located and the problems public schools in Kaduna are facing.
“ It is not because I have a political difference with him, no, but for whoever lives in Kaduna State knew that what the governor did with his son been enrolled in public school was just a comedy. Though, it was a badly written Kennywood or Nollywood script. I know the governor likes Kennywood and Nollywood actors and actress but as far as I am concerned that was a bad and poorly written script for the media preparatory for 2023 and nothing else.
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“He would have done better by upgrading schools in Kaduna, You cannot spend N195M in a particular school and then take your son and the media to that school and think you have done anything differently. Let me tell you, we had a governor in this state, Balarabe Musa who has never lived in the government house during his reign and all the while he was a governor he lived in his private house and I also know that the children of former governor Ahmed Makarfi attended this same Capital School. I also know that other public officials’ children go to that school too. So if you are not been cony, deceptive and comical, you would have allowed all your children to enroll in public schools. Public school doesn’t mean primary schools alone, their public secondary schools and public universities.
“We have Kaduna State University, KASU which is a public University and we have several public secondary schools in the state. During Sallah we see the governor with a lot of your children and all of sudden you picked one of them and said oh, take him to Capital School, I think the governor is becoming a bad representation of Baba Sala, I Go Die and Basket Mouth a kind of comedy situation. He is not new in this kind of drama. It was the same person who was moving around Kaduna—Abuja road and he went with cameras that he was chasing kidnappers, so this is a new script but as far as am concerned, that is a comedy. Since we are in an era in this state of using public utilities, public hospitals, and now public schools, so it is also in order that public officials, both elected and appointed should also patronize public toilets in Kaduna. That is the highest form of patriotism and selfless service. You should use what the masses are using which is public toilets.
“As a governor of the state and as a leader, if it is good to patronize public schools by public servants, politicians and all of us should take to patronizing public toilets like the one that is not far away from my office.”
