Gov Uba Sani, El-Rufai's son, Bashir
El-Rufai’s son tackles Gov Sani: Don’t deflect your problem, you’re incompetent
Son of former Kaduna State Governor, Bashir El-Rufai, has replied the state governor, Uba Sani, over the huge debt overhang left by the administration of former Governor Nasir el-Rufai for his administration.
Governor Sani had, on Saturday at a Town Hall Meeting in Kaduna, spilled the bean tgat he inherited a huge debt burden of $587m, N85bn and 115 contractual liabilities from the El-Rufai administration, which have made it difficult for him to pay workers’ salaries.
However, Bashir, ex-Governor El-Rufai’s son, said the governor was dodging his responsibility by always staying away from the state and hibernating in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja.
Bashir said Governor Sani, who is a friend of his father, is surrounding himself with a retinue of incompetent aides appointed for political patronage.
He said rather than admitting its incompetence, the Uba Sani administration has resorted to deflect by raising alarm on a debt burden inherited from Governor El-Rufai administration.
In a 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 berated Governor Sani and his team, accusing them of incompetence, contract inflation and Forex speculation, wondering why they were giving debt burden as an excuse for their poor performance.
El-Rufai’s son 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.”
It will be recalled that Governor Sani was Kaduna Central Senator in the 9th Senate before his emergence as the state governor in the 2023 elections.
Bashir rweeted, “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.”
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