THE TALLEST MAN AND THE NAKED MAIDENS.

The Governor of Kaduna State, Mr. Nasir el-Rufai surely knows how to talk the talk, and as he has exhibited in the past, both as DG, BPE and later as Mayor of Abuja, he also knows how to walk the walk.

Even as a governor, he has built a reputation as a man who does whatever he wants and most times, gets away with it.

Except finding a lasting solution to the on going Southern Kaduna massacre, that is.

Mr. Rufai has never hidden the fact that he is a narcissistic enabler who flow with whatever tide will benefit him. From being an Atiku Protégé to an Obasanjo loyalist. A morbid anti-Buhari crusader to a pro-Buhari Defender, the big man with the small stature is as constant in shifting loyalty as, if you like, a chameleon.

Based on his relative ingenuity in positioning Kaduna State as a business and commercial hub of the North, based on the proximity of the state to Abuja, one would think the security of lives and property of his people would be paramount on his scale of preference .

But it seems that it is the total extermination of the people of Southern Kaduna is just as important to the man as his professed desire to modernize Kaduna State.

Given the unmitigated disaster that the Buhari security structure has become, and knowing of Mr. Rufai's unrefuted Presidential or Vice Presidential ambitions, it makes sense that securing his people would be the selling point of a presidential or Vice Presidential campaign.

Unless of course, if the sacrifice is the extermination of the majority Christian people of Southern Kaduna, as part of the rumored Fulani expansionist agenda.

Because I cannot phantom, given Mr. Rufai's antecedents, the lackadaisical manner he handles the current genocide going on in his state, compared to the Napoleonistic ruthlessness he dealt with his political opponents, including picking a Muslim-Muslim ticket in a state of such delicate ethno-religious balance.

The act of our mothers in black africa protesting in the nude is the ultimate sign that they have given up on the constituted authorities to defend them. It may be a meaningless gesture to some, but the symbolism is ominous, both as a spiritual act of impurity and a physical act of defiance.

Either way, if nothing is done by the government of Kaduna State to stem this continuous tide of destruction, the end results may not be palatable.

As we say in Ibadan, everybody knows the moment a war begins, nobody can predict when, and how, it will end.

My10kobo.