Opposition leader and former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said that those accusing him of undaentalism do not know him.
He said it was their mere opinions that he cared not about.
El-Rufai said this during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, arguing that those who hold them don’t know him personally or haven’t worked with him.
“I don’t care. The people that think I am a fundamentalist don’t know me, they have never met me, they have formed their opinion,” he said.
“Frankly, the reason why my enemies are very vehement at hating me is because I don’t care what they think. It’s the way I am. I am very comfortable with what I am. I don’t care what you think. Those that work with me know me,” he said on Sunday.
“They can think what they think. I don’t tolerate nonsense; governance is not a joke,” he stated.
The former governor noted that, “When you’re governing 10 million people as I did in Kaduna, you must discriminate between A and B. Nobody can blackmail me that because he is a Christian, the law doesn’t apply to him.
“There are people in Southern Kaduna that feel entitled to behave in a certain way, I dealt with them. Some of the closest people I worked with in government are from Southern Kaduna. They know that this is not true.”
El-Rufai further explained that during his administration, he stopped several irregular practices and cut down wasteful government spending.
