Investigating the El-Rufai government from 2015 to 2023, the Kaduna State House of Assembly indicted the administration for purported corruption.
But days after the indictment, exco members who served under El-Rufai, denied the claim, maintaining they served the state with integrity.
“We reject this report in its entirety, along with the procedures that went along with it. The report is the result of a procedure that was carried out in a patently unfair and malicious manner.It is utterly devoid of truth and is full of assumptions, fabrications, and deception.
According to a statement jointly signed by former environment commissioner Jafaru Ibrahim Sani, former commissioners of human services and social development Hafsat Mohammed Baba, planning and budget commissioner Umar Yusuf Aboki, and former chief of staff Bashir Saidu, among others, “The Report is bereft of rigour and accuracy and fails to demonstrate any understanding of the various matters it purported to investigate.”
“The authors of this report and their sponsors seem to have calculated that rigour is not required in a document whose purpose is to splash mud and smear reputations. We shall exercise our right to defend our hard-earned reputations, but without prejudice to that day, we wish to rebut and refute the avalanche of dirty lies dressed up as a clean official report.”
They affirmed, “the integrity of the Administration in which we served the people of Kaduna State between May 2015 and May 2023 under the leadership of Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai”.
According to the commissioners, during the eight years of their service, the administration “impacted Kaduna State with innovations that accelerated the modernization of the state, prioritised human capital development, expanded its infrastructure, improved its business standing, and promoted equality of opportunity.”.
“During Malam El-Rufai’s tenure, his Administration, in spite of our State’s public
safety challenges were undoubtedly established as one of the best in Nigeria,” he insisted.
