The Kaduna State governor, Mallam
Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has replied the Senator representing Bayelsa east, Senator
Ben Murray Bruce over his recent comment on who should be given credit for the
Abuja-Kaduna railway.
President Muhammadu Buhari
recently commissioned ten new coaches and two locomotives in Rigasa, Kaduna
State.
Bruce had told el-Rufai, that his
(El-Rufai’s) hatred for late former President, Musa Ya’Adua has clouded his
judgment on who initiated the Abuja-Kaduna railway.
The lawmaker said this in
response to the governor’s reaction to his first tweet that the immediate past
President, Goodluck Jonathan should be honoured for the success of the railway.
He wrote, “Your dislike of the
late Yar’adua may have clouded your judgment. I made no mention of the ‘Abuja light
railway’.
“My tweet referred to the
Abuja-Kaduna railway which IS a product of the Jonathan administration. I am
happy to publicly debate this with you.”
El-Rufai while reacting to
Bruce’s tweet said, “Facts cannot be debated. Opinions are free. While the
Obasanjo administration was conceiving the rail modernization programme, Sen
Ben-Bruce was organizing beauty contests and Jonathan was a deputy governor. I
am not cluelessly common-sensical!”
Thank you Gov El-Rufai. Maybe Sen Ben Bruce was sleeping at that time. He forgot that Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo pushed the contract with CCCME, and was councelled by Yar-Adua including the sales of some Refineries
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