Debt: PDP backs Gov Sani, calls for inquiry to probe El-Rufai

The Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, Kaduna State Chapter has called on Governor of the state, Mallam Uba Sani to launch an inquiry probing the immediate past governor of the state, Nasir El-Rufai, following the huge financial debts he incurred for the state.

The opposition party said it frowns at the revelations of Governor Sani, about the state of finances and “misappropriation” of funds of the State, by the former Governor of the State, Nasir El-Rufai, during a Town Hall meeting held on the 30th March, 2024.

In a statement by its State Publicity Secretary, Abraham Alberah Catoh, PDP said, “Though it did not come to us as a surprise, we believed that these revelation is just a scratch on the surface on the real issues, therein; we encourage him to go full fledged in this show of transparency !

“We, as opposition party, are in full support of any plan by the government that would bring development to our dear State, bearing in mind that we shall always kick against anything short of that.

“It will be recalled that in 2018 and 2022, the PDP in Kaduna State drew the attention of the Nasir Elrufai-led government and the citizens of Kaduna State about the improper use of public funds, the criminal sale of landed properties belonging to the people of State and the unconstitutional mass sacked of qualified teachers and replacement of same with unqualified ones that have even deserted most of their duty posts; the PDP has been vindicated.

“The PDP urges the governor to set up and mandate a Judicial Commission of Inquiry for full investigation into all the allegations to unravel the state of affairs of the $587 million foreign loans, #85 billion local loans and #115 billion contractual liabilities of unpaid abandoned contracts inherited from the Nasir Elrufai government.

“The judicial Commission of inquiry should also look into the sale of the state’s landed properties in the last 8 years of the failed administration of Nasir Elrufai in Kaduna State and those found guilty should be made to refund their stolen monies to the State coffers and also face the wrath of the law.

“And to also set up another High Powered Civil Service Reforms Commission of Inquiry, to review and ascertain the modalities used in sacking the over 27,000 workers from the State Civil Service without payment of their entitlements and the bastardization of the civil service, during the dark days of the administration of Nasir Elrufai, with the view to doing justice to all and sundry.”