Nigeria, Sept. 1 -- The Kaduna State Government has issued what it described as a final warning to former Governor Nasir El-Rufai, accusing him of plotting to destabilise the state under Governor Uba Sani.

During an appearance on Channels Television's Sunday Politics programme, Mr El-Rufai said the federal and Kaduna governments paid billions of naira to bandits as part of their non-kinetic measures to end insecurity, a claim debunked by the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) on Monday.

On Monday, in a strongly worded statement signed by the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Suleiman Shuaibu, the state government said it would not "fold its arms and allow a discredited former leader, who left the state in ...