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El-Rufai said this on Saturday at a meeting with pastors under the auspices of the Pastors United For Change Association (PUCA), held in Kaduna.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIn my life, I have never worked with people based on religious and ethnic consideration. Don\u2019t look at what people said, but what I have done in the past.<\/p>\n
\u201cGo through my records and see what I have done. On the issue of my running mate, we are encouraging women participation in politics. She is a competent woman. Only Kaduna State has male\/female governorship ticket in northern Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\u201cLate Professor Andrew Nok, our late Commissioner for Education, brought Dr. Hadiza Balarabe when we were looking for someone that can revive our primary health in the state and she performed excellently well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know her before. Her choice as a running mate has nothing to do with religion. I am confident that my running mate will run the state effectively, and will be fair to all in the state even if I am not around.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you get into office politics, you must be fair to all. Check our records in the last three years and six months, we have worked. We built, repaired primary, secondary schools. We fixed our primary health centres.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI am human and I can make mistakes like any other person. I will be fair to everybody.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must unite our people for progress. I want Kaduna State to interact on the basis of humanity, not religion and ethnicity.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his remarks, Apostle David Adeniran, the PUCA Chairman, said: \u201cI believe many of us will go home with new thinking that something good is happening in Kaduna. This is a new Kaduna State.\u201d<\/p>\n
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