Governor’ Son Withdrawn From School Amidst Fear Of Attack In Kaduna

A Seven-year-old son of Kaduna State Governor, Abubakar Al-Sadiq El-Rufai has been withdrawn from school over fears that the Kaduna Capital school which he attended might be attacked by bandits.

Nasir El-Rufai who was praised for registering his son in a public school in the state in September, 2019 has made a U-turn by stealthily withdrawing him from school to be home-schooled following intelligence that he was being targetted for kidnap.

Abubakar El-Rufai was enrolled at the school in 2019 and withdrawn two years after.

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A pupil stated: “He does not come again. I have not seen him. I don’t know if he is still a pupil,”

“His class is in this two-storey building, which is for the primary school. But he has not come since we resumed,” another pupil noted.“

“You know the security situation around public schools in the state; he may have been withdrawn by his parents to prevent any embarrassing situation of abductions or bandits’ attacks,” noted a teacher.

Similarly, Nasrine, the Governor’s daughter who attended the same school was also withdrawn.

The report has it that the Governor revealed during an interview with BBC Pidgin that the secret withdrawal was due to the fact that bandits were targetting to kidnap his son.

“My son and my daughter are registered in the school because his sister turned six and we had to register her.”

El-Rufai had this to say: “But we have had to temporarily withdraw them for the security of the school because we got intercepts from at least two groups that are planning to attack the school to kidnap my son,”

Prior to that, the Governor had declared that no matter who is kidnapped even if it were to be his son, he would not support the payment of ransom but would rather pray for him/her to make heaven.

Nasir disclosed further that the plan to abduct his son is to test whether he will keep his words of not paying any ransom as he had previousy declared.