Nasir El Rufai, a former governor of Kaduna state has called on the National Assembly to commence impeachment proceeding against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu over an alleged N1.5 trillion illegally withdrawn from the federation Account.
He said the amount was withdrawn from the Account for a period of 15 months.
The former governor spoke on Arise Television interview programme, Prime Time saying the huge amount was systematically withdrawn from the federation account without appropriation by the NASS.
El Rufai said the president should be invited to explain the alleged withdrawal without the approval of the state governments, which are federating units.
He also lamented the state of insecurity in the country, which he claimed is worse than when the late President Muhammadu Buhari was the country’s leader.
According to him, more Nigerians have been killed or adducted under President Tinubu compared to when Buhari was in charge of the country, saying “President Tinubu has failed woefully. If you told me in 2023 when we were campaigning that things will get this bad, I will say you are mentally ill.”
“In 2024, over 2.2 million Nigerians were abducted; 615,000 were killed. Is Nigeria at war? This number is worse than those of the past 8 years under Buhari. 1.5T has been withdrawn from the federation account without appropriation by the NASS, which is an impeachable offense,” the former governor said.
The former governor, was a close ally of the president but later parted ways with him, after he failed to scale the Senate Ministerial screening in 2023. He blamed Tinubu for his predicament, and has since turned a bitter critic of the incumbent.
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