The governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El Rufai recently appeared on a network interview with four local radio stations in the state, namely, Radio Nigeria, Kaduna Tate Media Corporation, Nagarta Radio and Freedom Radio, where he spoke on a wide range of issues affecting his state. He spoke on why some members of his party are opposed to his administration; why he sacked a senior official of his administration for awarding fictitious contracts and why he is not bothered about re-election for now.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state in this interview spoke about the health condition of ailing President Muhammadu Bauhari whom he recently visited in London, his alleged ownership of a snake farm in Makurdi, the agitation for the restructuring of the country and others.

Prior to my departure in 1976, my father spoke to me and said, if you go to America and say you are the son of a General in the Nigerian Army and under that pretext misbehave, I will never intervene, and if it means going to jail that is it for you

HOW did you get into insurance, was that your chosen career from the beginning?
I didn’t want to study insurance and I in fact rejected studying insurance. I wanted to go to Ahmadu Bello University because I was a very staunch Muslim student at secondary school and at HSC levels. So because of Islam, I wanted to go to ABU to study accounting and it was in the days of direct entry – before JAMB.

The current generation of Nigerians who are politically active and informed can never take PDP serious