“El-Rufai’s Government The Mőst Cőrrupt In The Histőry Of Kaduna State” – Shehu Sani

By Akinwale Kasali

Shehu Sani, a former Lawmaker and Human Rights Activist, has come hard on former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai. Sani labeled his eight-year administration in the saddle as the most corrupt in the history of Kaduna State.

Sani alleged that the embezzlement and monumental fraud that happened under El-Rufai’s administration has plunged the State into the financial comatose it is facing.

He added that the mismanagement of public funds under the El-Rufai administration cannot be swept under the carpet as it is presently having a toll on the State, its development, both economical and otherwise.

Responding to questions on the economic position of the State, he said, “I was a lone voice in calling for transparency, accountability and probity in the way the finances of Kaduna state government was mismanaged from 2015-2023. In that process, I received a lot of attacks, persecution and threat to my own life. But I remained consistent and I refused to be silent, because I knew very well that that government is one of the most corrupt government in the history of our dear state Kaduna. As a senator from 2015-2019.

“ I opposed the loan of which the government of El-Rufai applied and seek to get from the world bank because I foresee what is about to happen, it’s not about prophecy, because I knew that government was opaque, it had no regard for public opinion, it had no regard for transparency and die process”.

It would be recalled that Sani and El-Rufai had a very tough political battle which cost Sani’s  re-election to the  Senate.

El-Rufai threw up Uba Sani, the current Governor to contest in the same Senatorial District as Shehu Sani. Uba Sani won that election and became the Senator to replace Shehu Sani.

It was Uba who voted for the loan request of the El-Eufai Government to be approved.

Things have however taken a new twist as the Kaduna State House of Assembly have submitted their recommendations to the governor and are asking for him to act on them expeditiously.

Shehu Sani, on the recommendations made by the lawmakers, said , “they are now aligning with my own thoughts, aligning with my own thinking and my position that has been for eight years.

“There are many of them in the Assembly today who were opposed to me and who were opposed to what I stood for, but look at what has happened today?

“The report has come out from the Kaduna state house assembly. It has never happened before, where a government was thoroughly probed and it has been found out that this is what has been looted and misappropriated.

“Go to the streets of Kaduna today and you will see projects that have been abandoned. The essence of borrowing money is to tie it down to projects that will benefit your people.

“I must send this clear warning to the state house of assembly and government of Kaduna state, If they don’t move to recover our money we start an open opposition against them, because as far as I am concerned I will not sit and watch my state being wrecked and some people sit down somewhere and issue statements?

“They should be happy that it is not Shehu Sani that is the Governor, because they will not be having the benefit of issuing statements”, Sani said.