A political war seemed to be brewing in Kaduna State as Bashir El-Rufai accused the State governor, Uba Sani, of running away from his responsibility by always going to Abuja, away from the state and be hibernating in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Bashir, who is a son of the immediate-past governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai, also accused Governor Sani, who is a friend of his father, of surrounding himself with a retinue of incompetent aides appointed for political patronage.
Bashir said that instead of admitting its incompetence, the Uba Sani administration has resorted to deflect by drawing attention to a debt burden inherited from Governor El-Rufai administration.
The Daily Crucible reports that Governor Sani had during a Town Hall Meeting on Saturday in Kaduna, revealed that he inherited a crippling huge debt burden of $587m, N85bn and 115 contractual liabilities from the Mallsm El-Rufai administration, making it a herculean task to pay workers’ salaries.
But, in an apparent response to the claim of the Kaduna State government via a series of tweets on his X handle (formerly Twitter) shortly after, Bashir El-Rufai flayed Governor Sani and his team, accusing them of incompetence, contract inflation and Forex speculation.
He wondered why they were citing debt burden as an excuse to explain away their poor performance.
The younger El-Rufai 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.”
On the debt profile of the State, he responded: “FYI: He was the Senator from Kaduna who lobbied & approved the loans.”
The Daily Crucible further reports that Governor Sani was Kaduna Central Senator in the 9th Senate before his emergence as the state governor in the 2023 elections.
Bashir further tweeted, “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.”
