SOKAYOV blames marginalisation on Makarfi
From Mustapha Saye, Kaduna

Governor Ahmad Muhammad Makarfi of Kaduna state has been blamed for the marginalisation southern Kaduna people despite the unprecedented support they have given his administration, National President Southern Kaduna Youths Vanguard (SOKAYOV), Mr. Mordecai Sunday Ibrahim, has said.
In his paper presented at a press conference titled ‘Enough is enough stop these lies’, Mr. Sunday Ibrahim stated that, “it is indeed disheartening that not withstanding the unprecedented support the people of southern Kaduna have continued to give Governor Makarfi and People’s Democratic Party’s PDP in the state, their gesture is not reciprocated”.
He said the governor and some greedy, selfish and unpatriotic members of the PDP including some southern Kaduna sons and daughters through divide and rule have worked assiduously against the interest of the southern Kaduna people.
Therefore, he pointed out “in the past seven years and eight months no single southern Kaduna son or daughters was ever given a contract worth 50 million in which such person made a net profit of even a paltry five million as if that is not enough he has deliberately set out to humiliate the cream of the highly responsible and respected sons and daughters of southern Kaduna that helped him (Makarfi) to peacefully pilot the affairs of the state over this period.’’
Mr. Sunday Ibrahim recalled that, the Makarfi administration until this moment does not deemed it necessary to settle the benefits (gratuity and others) of the late Deputy Governor Engr. Stephen Rijo Shekari who served him diligently, honestly and loyally.
According to him we are all living witnesses to the fact that even before his death the late deputy governor was almost humiliated but for God’s intervention and the man’s absolute gentility adding that a side the late Shekari, Governor Makarfi though, he could also humiliate the likes of Dr. Baba Usman and Engr. Bawa Magaji Kufana who among others remain the heroes that served as the shock-absorbers/stabilizers of his administration that helped him to secure his second term ticket.
He maintained that what southern Kaduna people are witnessing today is a situation whereby they have been beaten and told not cry, having served Makarfi and PDP for this long. ‘’The only hope of southern Kaduna people for remaining en-bloc in the party was and still is the hope of clinching the party’s governorship ticket in 2007, particularly as verbally promised by Makarfi himself to southern Kaduna PDP elders on several occasion,’’ he concluded.