Nasir el-Rufai
The
Kaduna State Governor-elect, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, says it will be a
wishful thinking for anybody to believe that he will share public fund
to individuals or groups in the state after May 29.
He said his administration would not
condone the sharing of public funds to anybody in the name of godfather
or group, no matter how highly placed.
Rather than doing that, el-Rufai said the
state resources would be judiously utilised for the development of the
state and the people.
This was just as the governor-elect said
that the debt profile of the state would run into N100bn before the May
29 hand over date.
El-Rufai noted that as the administration
of the Peoples Democratic Party ended in May, both at the federal and
state levels, what both the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari and
himself needed was prayers from Nigerians to succeed.
The former Minister of the FCT added that
the government of President Goodluck Jonathan and that of Governor
Mukhtar Yero had become so bad that they had to obtain loans to pay
salaries.
According to el-Rufai, Nigerians should
stop congratulating him and the President-elect but should rather pity
them and pray for them to succeed because of the “bankrupt economy” they
would inherit.
El-Rufai spoke at a reception organised for him by the Kaduna Peoples Association at the Arewa House, Kaduna on Saturday.
The governor-elect , who told the
gathering that the state, led by Yero, had incurred N90bn debt, noted
that before the May 29 hand over date, the debt might increase to
N100bn.
Meanwhile, at a prayer session for them
by the APC Yoruba Political Forum in Kaduna State on Saturday, el-Rufai
insisted that the incoming government needed nothing but prayers from
Nigerians.
The governor-elect said, “When people
call to congratulate me or come to congratulate me and General Buhari, I
always tell them, thank you, but what we need is your sympathy and
prayers.
“This is because, myself and Buhari are
taking over bankrupt governments; it is so bad that the Jonathan
administration is finding it difficult to pay salaries. In fact, they
had to obtain loan to pay salaries.
“In the case of Kaduna State, the Peoples
Democratic Party’s government has incurred debt to the tune of over
N90bn and this may get to N100bn before May 29. Therefore, what you have
done is exactly what we need to succeed.”
El-Rufai urged other elected officers to strive hard to deliver the dividend of democracy to the electorates.
He warned that if they (elected officers)
failed in the discharge of their duties to the people, they would be
voted out like the PDP come 2019.
He assured the people that in his
administration, there would be no discrimination among indigenes or
settlers while noting that the Yoruba community had lived peacefully
with their hosts over the years in the state.
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