By Baron Ike
Senator Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi 
has reiterated his disdain for the style of leadership of Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, saying he will not back the governor again if he decides to re-contest.
“If he decides to run again, I will not support him the way things stand today,” Hunkuyi said.
Apart from Hunkuyi, another senator from Kaduna, incidentally all from the same political family, Shehu Sani has said El-Rufai should be voted out if he decides to run again in 2019. But Hunkuyi’s position appears to be the latest.
He said: “And I am being very honest. The reason is, I believe majority of my people in Kaduna State are desirous of something else, they desire something else, so Hunkuyi cannot tie himself in opposition against his own people, it is not my own way of politics.
“But he might see reason, he might change, he might go back to the people, he might plead, the people may agree with him. If the majority of the people agree with him Hunkuyi is always with the people, my structure and indeed the structure of any person, you should understand, is like waterways, it does not have any construction that you will say is carrying the boat, it is the water itself, it is fluid but it is carrying the board, that is the power of the people.
“My structure is nothing other than the decision of the majority of the people believing that what we say, what we tell them, what we guide them, we do so out of honest feeling, guidance and premonition, to give them the right thing at the end of the day.”