Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has in a recent statement called out his colleagues and other political elites in the country to stop the slot mentality. He noted that during the launch of the State Social Protection Policy that Nigeria has the largest number of poor people across the world. 
Governor Nasir El-Rufai then noted that it is very painful to see policies and programs designed to help lift ordinary Nigerians out of poverty been truncated by political elites who are always seeking for slots to be allocated to them to give their own people, rather than the real vulnerable poor Nigerians who need and deserve it.
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In El-Rufai’s words;
“Nigeria is going through trying times. We have the largest number of poor people than any country in the world. Yet, whenever a programme is designed to help the poor and vulnerable, we resort to a slot mentality in which important people are allocated slots instead of targeting those poor and vulnerable that deserve it. This is unfortunate. We must move away from slot mentality and use our social register to offer targeted support to those that truly need it.
I appeal to all my colleagues, the political elites to please drop this slot mentality and use the social register, so that, programmes targeting the vulnerable actually go to the poor and vulnerable. When we think of the poor and vulnerable, we must all remember that, the welfare of each one of us is bound up in the welfare of all of us.”
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