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Nasir El-Rufai Quotes

born 1960 Nigeria

Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai CON (born 16 February 1960) is a Nigerian politician who served as the governor of Kaduna State from 2015 to 2023.A member of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) since November 2025 after his defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) which he was one of the founding member, and served as the minister of the Federal Capital Territory from 2003 to 2007 under the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo.

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We seek to build a state that works for everyone, irrespective of religion, ethnicity or place of origin.

The task before us is enormous, but it is not beyond us.

Today marks the beginning of a new chapter in the history of Kaduna State.

Together, we shall build a peaceful, just and prosperous Kaduna State.

Public office is a public trust.

I don’t care. The people who think I am a fundamentalist don’t know me; they have never met me; they have formed their opinion.

When you’re governing 10 million people as I did in Kaduna, you must not discriminate between A and B. Nobody can blackmail me that because he is a Christian, the law doesn’t apply to him.

Yes, I believe in Buhari, I still do and I will never stop believing in him. But I no longer believe in the circle around him and the quality of decisions and actions coming out of that leadership.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nasir El-Rufai (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.