Uba Sani is God-sent — Fani-Kayode

Senator Uba Sani became Governor by divine intervention in order to heal Kaduna State of the carnage, mistrust, and open discrimination against Christians in the recent past.

Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, made this known at the Diocese of Kafanchan, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) Synod 2025 35th Anniversary on Saturday.

He said that there was a time when the 17 security chiefs in the country were Muslims from the North, and Christians were discriminated against because of their faith, especially in Kaduna State.

According to the former Minister, with the coming of Governor Uba Sani into office, the situation has started to change for the better in Kaduna State, adding that “what he is doing should serve as an example to the rest of the country.”

“The Governor that you have today came as a consequence of prayer. I have known him for many years. He is one of my closest friends. He is not an ordinary person,” he said.

“There was a time on this very ground, you had a Governor who despised Christians. I use the word ‘despised’ advisedly and with a capital ‘D’. He treated Christians with contempt and disdain.”

Fani-Kayode recalled that 25th December 2016 will forever remain in his memory because of the gruesome murder of Christians in four local governments in Southern Kaduna.

The former Minister reminded that he wrote extensively about the carnage, spoke out against it all over the country, and paid a price for that, “but that doesn’t matter.”

According to him, 800 people of Southern Kaduna extraction in four local governments were killed in one day “by terrorists from outside who came and butchered them. Defenceless men, women, and children were slaughtered as a Christmas Day present.”

“To put the icing on the cake, the local hospitals were closed. And nobody listened to you from Government House, so that you would suffer all the more. And that kept on happening, community after community.”

Chief Fani-Kayode further said that Christian traditional rulers were killed and their subjects were treated like filth, adding that the plight of the people of Southern Kaduna touched Christians all over the country.

The ex-Minister noted that the shabby treatment that Christians were subjected to acted as a “catalyst for them to stand against it, fight against it, and say ‘we shall not accept this.’”

“To be a Christian is not to be a second-class citizen, is not to be a slave, is not to be a nobody. To be a Christian is to be everything — a child of the living God, a believer,” he maintained, adding that Christians “suffered under the leadership of that individual.”

The former Minister, who is the Saduakin Shinkafi, recalled that Christians prayed for God’s intercession, and He answered their prayers because they do not believe in violence.

According to him, God raised a humane Governor in the person of Senator Uba Sani, a candidate whom some people thought would not coast to victory, adding that even his so-called backer thought he could manipulate him.

“One of the first things that Uba Sani did when he came in — and he told me he was going to do this — was to bridge the division between Christians and Muslims. And he honoured that promise. Kaduna is now for both Christians and Muslims as well.”

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