The condemnation was contained in a statement by the State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, on Monday.
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El-Rufai made the commendation while declaring open a two-day workshop on “Early Warning Signals, Response and Conflict Prevention for Communities and Security’’ in Kaduna.
This was disclosed in a statement issued by the Commissioner, Ministry of Local Government Affairs, Ja’afaru Sani, on Wednesday.
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The commission’s Chairman, Dr Saratu Dikko, said on Tuesday at a press conference in Kaduna that the postponement followed an order by a high court to stop the election.
Announcing the results of the polls, the local government election returning officer, Umar Hayatu said the APC has won with total of 168,572 votes, more than 10 times the votes won by his closest opponent.
The adjournment followed the non-tendering of the assets declaration documents of El-Rufa’i by the Code of Conduct Bureau when he served as Director General, Bureau of Public Enterprises and as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.
Sani-Bello said in an interview with the News Agency Nigeria in Kaduna that the APC-administration in the state had sidelined the people and failed in giving them hope.
El-Rufai, made the appeal on Saturday in his Easter massage, charged the people to uphold each other in common humanity and pray for peace in the land.
The decision came on the heels of another initiative by Governor Nasir El-Rufai to forge peace in the state, often wracked by ethnic and religious violence.
The governor said in Kaduna when he received newly elected officials of the association who paid him a courtesy visit that the government would not condone any breach of the peace.
The teachers’ union was reacting to the governor’s statement two weeks ago, in which he announced plans to sack 21,780 primary school teachers who allegedly failed a competency test and replace them with 25,000 new ones.
The governor made the denial in Kaduna in a message to the opening of a workshop on conflict prevention and peace building for civil society organisations.
The governor told newsmen in Kaduna after receiving 18-year-old Nkechinyero Chidi-Ogbolu, author of the book ‘Tales of an Uber Minor in College,’ that education was key to success.
El-Rufai commended the retired Head of Service for her hard work and foresight and in driving ongoing reforms in the state civil service