El-Rufai Vs Senate: Governor a ‘loose canon’-Senator  Ibrahim 

Gov. Nasir-El-Rufai of Kaduna State

Chairman Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, Senator Rafiu Ibrahim has accused  Kaduna State Governor, Mr. Nasir El-Rufai of being one of those creating problems in the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He also took a swipe at the governor, calling him a “loose cannon and a liar”.

The senator who was reacting to a statement by Gov. El-Rufai on a Hausa radio Programme where he described the present Senate under the leadership of Dr. Bukola Saraki as the worst, the lawmaker stated that the Kaduna Governor is known as a “flippant and loose talker as the facts do not support his position”.

Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki

“May be we need to educate this aggrieved governor that this Senate in three years already has the highest number of bills with relevance to improving the economy, eliminating insecurity and corruption since 1999, even though we still have 10 months to the end of our tenure. Similarly, we have treated more petitions than the number that all the past Senate combined had done. Our interventions on key issues that affect the day to day living of Nigerians have remained unparalleled.

“El- Rufai is an aggrieved governor. He is pained by the rejection of his request for foreign loans by the Senate Committee on Foreign and Local Debt  which is headed by a senator from Kaduna State, Shehu Sani. The governor has been speaking from both sides of the mouth.

” He had sent several persons to the Senate President on this loan. I am aware that when he sent the current Minister of Finance to Dr. Saraki, the latter made it known that he too was helpless on the issue as there was no personal reason that will make him stand against such a request. The Senate President advised the governor to reach out to the three senators from the state and get them to support the decision as he, the Senate President, would find it difficult to overrule the Senators, particularly since one of them is the chairman of the concerned committee. The three senators from Kaduna State insisted that an approval for the loan would sentence Kaduna State to many years of indebtedness.

“I am aware of the text message that this same El-Rufai sent to Saraki few weeks ago,thanking him for the useful and supportive discussion the Senate President had with the Minister of Finance on the Kaduna loan issue and commending this same Saraki for the leadership he has provided on a number of issues.

” For him to now be making this kind of nonsensical and reckless statements against the Senate President shows that he is a double-faced, reckless, immature and unstable liar. People should ignore him. He is one of the people who destroyed APC up to the point that it is and President Buhari had better realized that with a supporter like El-Rufai, he does not need an opponent again”, Rafiu stated.

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