EASTER SLAP- Governor El -Rufai Receives 2 Hot Slaps From His Deputy For Slapping Him

According to a report, the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and his deputy, Architect Barnabas Bala Bantex had exchanged slaps during an argument at a cabinet meeting within the state . According to a reliable source via a telephone conversation, the Governor and the deputy have been having a cold war over the plans by the governor to sack top civil servants in the state. The governor who is embarking on a civil service reform agenda had decided to retire these top civil servants, who still had some years left in service but the deputy was said to have been disturbed and deeply uncomfortable with the situation. The deputy governor had confided in his close associates that the list of top civil servants marked for this retirement exercise reflected a majority of up to 70 per cent from the Southern Kaduna extraction. During the cabinet meeting, the deputy governor bared his mind and told governor El -Rufai he is not in support of the exercise; he said that he...