Kaduna gov, senator deny plan to rename state as Zazzau

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Kaduna State Government has denied sponsoring a bill to rename the state as Zauzau State, describing it as fictitious and untrue.

According to a statement by Governor Nasir el-Rufai’s media aide, Muyiwa Adeleye, the report of changing Kaduna to Zazzau is fictitious and fake.

Reacting to the report that was widely circulated yesterday, Adekeye advised citizens in the state to “ignore the elaborate piece of fiction that made the claim; it is fake news.”

Also, Senator Uba Sani (Kaduna Central), who purportedly sponsored the bill, stated: “My attention has been drawn to a concocted, subversive, malicious and false information circulating in the social media claiming that President Muhammadu Buhari has