By Taiye Odewale
Abuja
The feud between the Kaduna state Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, and Senator Shehu Sani (APC Kaduna Central) deepened yesterday with accusation of nepotism against the governor from the senator.
Sani in a statement in Abuja said El-Rufai had, within the last two years, been “governing the state like a personal, family and friend’s estate without any meaningful physical achievement other than sponsored media propaganda.”
According to him, Kaduna state under El-Rufai within the last 25 months has become one of the worst states in terms of infrastructure development.
“El-Rufai has no money to pay traditional rulers he recently sacked, but has money to dispense as contracts to family, friends and political cronies. El-Rufai has enough money to pay herdsmen but no money to pay district heads,” he said.
The lawmaker, therefore, called on El-Rufai to suspend his presidential or vice- presidential ambition and concentrate on proper governance of the state.
“Kaduna is today littered with abandoned drainages to the point that the rainy season has turned Kaduna into a coastal state with creeks turning it into more or less a hub of kidnappers and sanctuary for herdsmen.
“El-Rufai wants to be seen as an Apostle of Buhari’s change but he is actually the Judas of change.
“The Kaduna state governor, who in his memo accused PMB of running a failed government, has failed also woefully. He thinks PMB failed, but he never invited PMB to even commission a completed toilet in his state.
“The very governor who once condemned the National Assembly for lack of transparency has proven to be worse.”
He further accused of the governor auctioning over 2, 000 government houses he inherited when “he’s yet to build a hut” as addition or replacement.
