Letter To El-Rufai ( in reply of your letter to President Buhari) From Nasiru Jagaba

 I find it amusing the rare courage and forthrightness with which you, Nasiru El-Rufai, wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari, about the state of the nation. Had this letter not been leaked by you (as widely rumoured) one would have thought of you as among the followers of governance or leadership provided “their man” is in power.
I find the memo to the President written six months ago important, and

the grave allegations therein seem to have remained unaddressed till this day. Also, the issues enumerated were matters of governance, leadership and its consequences on the Nigerian State. Most interesting, however, is the assertion that you were persuaded to contest for the office of the Governor by the President himself.
This singular admittance of this fact means that President Buhari has actually wronged many of his admirers, loyalists and citizens in Kaduna State by persuading us to vote you into Sir Kashim Ibrahim house.
The show of maturity by the President in the face of the outburst of criticism of his close associates, his executive team and leadership style tells so much. Many pundits have thought you and the President to be of like-mind. There is obviously so much you can learn from him, in order to return Sir Kashim Ibrahim House in Kaduna to its pride of place in governance.
So far, your memo to the president is the case of the pot calling a kettle black, or at best hypocrisy of the highest order. It is on record that Buhari has admitted to the error on the appointment of vice chancellors when he did. It is on record that the Vice President sees himself, the President and other numbers of the Federal Executive Council as a team, unlike in the case of kaduna state executive council where you serve like a demigod.
We have also not forgotten how you dismissed justifiable protests over the ministerial nominee from the state, who was said to be your cousin. You were quoted to have stated that anyone having a problem with the nomination should go and climb up the Kufena hills and fall.
The people of Kaduna state are now living with the reality that indeed you are an accidental public servant. There is no aspect of governance in Kaduna state today that is not replete with the exhibition of high-headedness, ineptitude, empty propaganda, and disregard for the rule of law, incomplete or abandoned programmes and projects.
You lost the support of key politicians in your party as soon as you settled into office. Only those who are opportunistic and sycophants continue to hang around you. True party men and women are patiently but eagerly awaiting for the day of political retribution in the forthcoming elections.
Your Excellency, under your leadership the civil service has been deprived of professionalism at both Local and state government levels. It is no longer news that so many have been relieved of their duties without termination of engagement. All must know that it is in your administration that directors are deployed to the classrooms, and in practice Grade level 17 officers are supervised by GL 16 officers. It is under your administration that all manner of dubious individuals, who are on record to have fled Nigeria to escape justice after you ceased to be FCT Minister, have been brought from Lagos and other states to oppress and lord it over honest and hardworking people in Kaduna State. You despise the people of this state to the point where most of the teachers you employed are from other states, while highly competent graduates from Kaduna State are left roaming the streets unemployed.
Besides your cronies, contractors are abandoning ship in Kaduna, and that is because many have lost their confidence in the administration of contracts in the state. The stories are endless of indebtedness to contractors who are themselves debtors of financial institutions.
After your experiment of the sale of the legislative quarters through processes perceived to be shady, made richer the members of Kaduna State House of Assembly and consequently bought over their loyalty. This is believed to be the reason why the legislative arm of government in the state have no mind of its own and does nothing more than doing your bidding. The words on the streets are that you had been away from the state, you hardly spend a week in the state, and even outside the country without any correspondence to the KDHA in this regard. Even the conspiracy of silence and inaction of the KDHA leadership begs for answers as to how intangible the right to life and security has become under this administration in the case of the unabated Southern Kaduna killings.
There is clearly covetousness at play in the way you are trying to convert public properties to private estates without any regard for the civil servants who have served this state and are at the twilight of their service by denying them simple right to first refusal offer.
It will be untrue to say that peaceful existence has never suffered in the State, but never in the history of the state has such been poorly and incompetently managed. We have seen you turn into a spokesman of the murderous Fulani herdsmen and their militia, that the narrative of the MACBAN has turned out to be so far all you parrot about the menace. From the moment when the outcry was rife to the time when citizens in southern Kaduna realized that the only development that their taxes can provide for them as you deemed it fit is the payment of compensation to so-called rampaging foreign terrorist herdsmen to appease them to cease the attack.
It is very ridiculous to pay killers, who will use the money to buy more arms and become more dastardly, then turn round with tongue in cheek to claim that you are paying them to stop the massacres, which only intensified. You showed clearly your indifference to the plight of the Southern Kaduna people whom you have refused to engage in attempts to finding practical measures to addressing the Fulani genocide.
You have bragged of arresting your critics calling them hate speech makers while you allow the armed herdsmen free movement even in areas where you have imposed curfews within the months under review.
As if all this wasn’t enough, you have gone further to boast about your inhuman actions, and have used the mass media to preach more hate and religious intolerance dividing the state along religious lines to save face. The suffering of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria and the killings of their members that you encouraged from your unguarded statements will never be forgotten.
Clearly your understanding that none is worthy of succeeding President Buhari but yourself is quite naïve and for someone so covetous, were you to move the capital of Kaduna State to the Southern parts of Nigeria your antics will only elude a few.  Many would have found contentment serving under Buhari and in your case the immunity enjoyed by you at this time was a wish so many have failed to fulfil. Surely time will tell, be fair and just to the fact that you, your Excellency, are an overrated accidental and disastrous Public Servant.

Jagaba wrote from Kaduna