El-Rufai’s son said Sani should admit to incompetence rather than blaming the previous administration.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai’s son, Bashir, has criticised his father’s successor, Governor Uba Sani, for making allegations of debt against the previous administration.
On Saturday in Kaduna, Sani addressed a town hall meeting where he said he inherited a huge debt burden of $587m, N85bn and 115 contractual liabilities from the El-Rufai administration.
He said the huge debt burden was eating deep into the state’s fund.
The governor explained that N7bn out of the N10bn federal allocation for the state in March was deducted to service the state’s debt.
He further lamented that the state was left with N3bn, an amount he said was not enough to pay salaries, as the state’s monthly salary bill stands at N5.2 billion.
However, in a series of posts on X, El-Rufai’s son said Sani should admit to incompetence rather than blaming the previous administration.
Debt incurred by El-Rufai’s administration makes it difficult to pay salaries, says Gov Sani
The former governor’s son further questioned Sani’s wisdom in “building a banquet hall for N7 billion” while, in the same breath “lamenting about debt left by the previous administration.”
He wrote: “These guys have realised that they are wholly incompetent and the only way to mask the nonsense is to deflect. From a Governor that is always sleeping in Abuja to a litany of incompetent aides that were only rewarded for foolish political reasons.
“FYI: He was the Senator from Kaduna who lobbied & approved the loans.
“One would think that from all the FAAC allocations these unserious clowns have changed to dollars, debt would be the least of their problems.”
“The current administration in Kaduna is building a banquet hall for 7BN naira and is lamenting about debt left by the previous administration,” El-Rufai’s son added.