Bashir El-Rufai, son of former Kaduna state Governor Nasir El-Rufai has attacked his father’s successor, Uba Sani, over his complaint about the loan burden he inherited when he assumed office on May 29, 2023.
Governor Sani at a town hall meeting on Saturday said his administration was finding it difficult to pay workers’ salaries because of the repayment of the state’s huge debts.
The governor said the administration inherited $587 million, N85 billion, and 115 contractual liabilities from the administration of El-Rufai.
Sani lamented that due to the rise in the exchange rate, the state is now paying back almost triple of what was borrowed by the previous administration.
He explained that N7 billion out of the N10 billion federal allocation for the state in March was deducted to service the state’s debt.
The governor lamented that the N3 billion left from the allocation was not enough to pay salaries, as the state’s monthly salary bill stands at N5.2 billion.
However, Mr Sani said despite the debt inherited, his administration has not borrowed “a single kobo” in the last nine months of his government.
In a swift reaction to Sani’s remark, the son of the former governor, in series of tweets on X said the governor was only trying to cover his administration’s incompetence.
El-Rufai claimed that the governor had “deflected” from his responsibilities and abandoned his duty as governor.
“These guys have realised that they are wholly incompetent and the only way to mask the nonsense is to deflect. From a governor who is always sleeping in Abuja to a litany of incompetent aides who were only rewarded for foolish political reasons,” he said.
