If You're Not Happy: Commit suicide, if you like, El-Rufai tells

Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai yesterday told ag­grieved persons over political and ministerial appointments made so far by his administra­tion to go and commit suicide if they are not happy about the appointments.
El-Rufai, who visibly lost his temper while answering ques­tions from stakeholders at the 4th town hall meeting with Ka­duna Central, otherwise known as zone 2, said he could not give appointment to persons that did not vote for him during the last governorship election .
His words, “If you are not happy with appointments made, you can go and climb Kufena mountain and fall. It was what you voted that you got because we are aware that there are peo­ple who did not vote for us, in fact they worked against us.
“But now they claim to be All Progressives Congress (APC) members and loyal to the party. We know such peo­ple. And so there is no way they would expect anything from us. You didn’t vote us but you want appointments. What you will get is zero. It is politics and in whatever we do there is poli­tics.”

El-Rufai also used the op­portunity to debunk allegation making rounds in the state that he nominated Hajia Zainab Shamsudeen for President Bu­hari’s ministerial list, saying that he had no hand in her nomina­tion.
“Before we were elected as governor we advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to al­low any governor nominate minister for him, because if he allows that they will nominate somebody of their choice and not that, of the President. And the President heeds to that ad­vice. No governor nominated any ministerial appointee for the President.
“And there are some people who appeared on the face as APC, but right inside them they are PDP. We know those who did anti-party. And they didn’t vote for us but they went to get house close to Buhari in Abuja for nomination. So, President Buhari single handedly nomi­nated Zainab,” El-Rufai ex­plained.
Earlier, Governor El-Rufai also unveiled new logo for the state saying henceforth the state will now use its own coat of arms.
“As a reflection of our con­fidence in the future of Kaduna State, we are today unveiling a new state logo. This logo rep­resents a new brand identity for our state. Its constituent ele­ments are rooted in the history and culture of our people. It re­tains work and worship, the old motto of the Northern Region, as our state motto,” El-Rufai said.