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His baggages are many. I wonder why you alll lie yet religious. 1. Kaduna was known as the worst place in Nigeria to be a journalist by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (2020) He went after journalists—Luka Binnyat (Vanguard), Anthony Jacobson (Authentic), Audi Maikori (Chocolate City)—dragged from various states, and jailed unlawfully- this is someone who enjoys free press but limited press freedom when he was Governor 2. Even after the Adara King’s murder, 8 Adara elders that protested; Elrufai jailed them unlawfully for almost a year till the court freed them, they later sued Elrufai & won. 3. El-Rufai openly bragged in a video about entrenching Muslim Fulani rule in Kaduna and relegating Southern Kaduna people to the background, fueling division and religious bigotry. The video is still online and it sparked national outrage when it came to the fore. 4. In 2017, El-Rufai’s administration created a 13-member “reform” committee. It went about renaming 25 chiefdoms in Southern Kaduna, he slashed districts from 390 to 77, he purposely weakened the roles of traditional rulers’ roles in Southern Kaduna, and the 2021 law he enacted, demoted and re-graded chiefs all in a bid to promote Fulani hegemony in Kaduna State Timothy B. Gandu, cited official documents, including a letter dated June 20, 2017, from the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), as proof that the state government under Elrufai—not the traditional institutions—originated the process of altering the chieftancy system. 5. Imposition of Emirates on predominantly Christian communities. Several chiefdoms in Southern Kaduna, including Kauru, Kagarko, Kajuru, and Lere, were converted into emirates, a title traditionally associated with Muslim Hausa and Fulani leadership. This move was perceived as an imposition on predominantly Christian communities, altering their traditional governance structures without their consent. 6. The murder of paramount rulers, such as Agom Adara Dr. Raphael Maiwada Galadima in October 2018, raised suspicions about the state’s involvement in undermining indigenous leadership. His death occurred after he reportedly declined a request from the governor for grazing lands exclusively for Fulani herders 7. Many Southern Kaduna groups have accused El-Rufai of aiding and abetting what they described as “genocide” in Southern Kaduna, especially after he admitted to using state funds to make payments to terrorists as incentives not to carry out killings—which however escalated the killings after the admittance of such payment 8. The Kachia Grazing Reserve, established in 1967 to settle nomadic pastoralists, was expanded from 33,400 hectares to 77,000 hectares during El-Rufai’s tenure. This expansion occurred without the consent of the indigenous communities which was expanded to include their territories, leading to concerns over land rights and the displacement of local farmers. Studies have shown that the reserve is home to approximately 10,000 Fulani pastoralists and their 40,000 cattle, with some immigrants settling in the area. He was also involved inboindary adjustments that happened from Ikulu Chiefdom in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area (LGA) to Adara Chiefdom in Kachia LGA, as an effort to increase the Hausa and Fulani Muslim populations in Kachia and Adara, thereby altering the demographic and political landscape of the region 9. Elrufai embarked on retrenchment of no fewer than 21,000 teachers, thousands more in the civil service, pointing out that most of these people that were sacked, and others forced to go on voluntary retirement are yet to be paid their entitlements almost 6 years after they were forced out. He also sacked of 4,000 local government workers across the state mostly from Southern Kaduna @patrickanum