The Kaduna State governor-elect, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, has vowed to probe the outgoing administration of Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, after discovering that he will be inheriting a depleted state reserv
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El-Rufai,speaking on Tuesday, shortly after receiving the report of the All Progressives Congress transition committee in the state, said he wouldn’t shield anybody working for the previous administration from probe, including the governor, after taking over government on May 29.
El-Rufai said money stolen from the state’s treasury would be accounted for by the outgoing government of Yero.
The former minister of the federal capital territory, said the Peoples Democratic Party in the state has mismanaged every aspect of Kaduna welfare.
The governor-elect told the Punch that: “This report is the beginning we are trying to understand the government and see what has been left behind and we will see some more.
“I have said this and I will say it again; no one will take away the resources of this state without consequences.
“We are not going to let it happen. There would be full accountability for every penny that accrue to this state and any one that has taken the money for this state will he asked politely to return it and if he doesn’t, we will take actions that are not necessarily polite.
“I am determined to do this. This state has gone through trauma. Development has suffered. Resources have not been applied efficiently and effectively and we are not going to draw a line and say the past is the past. The past will be the future.”
El-Rufai said results at the just concluded elections prove that, no sitting government in Nigeria can rule forever.
The governor-elect, who asked to be judged while in office as from May 29, revealed that the people of the state have the right to vote him out in 2019, if he fails to perform.
He said: “Here in Kaduna, my partner and I (Deputy Governor-elect) will work as hard as we can to deliver true development and progress in the lives of our people and if we fail in four years, we will be voted out and others will be voted in. So, it is a good thing and that is how it should be.”
Meanwhile, the state’s APC chairman transition committee, Malam Balarabe Abbas-Lawal, while submitting the report to the governor-elect, said the out-going PDP administration in the state was un-cooperative.
“Our report is unfortunately an interim report as critical information required by the various sub-committees have not been provided despite several informal and formal attempts to persuade the outgoing government to accede to our requests,” he said.
The former FCT minister, won the April 11 Kaduna gubernatorial election by a landslide victory, pulling a total of 1,117,635 votes to defeat the incumbent governor and the Peoples Democratic candidate, Muhktar Yero, who scored 485,833 to come second.
El-Rufai won in 17 local government areas, while his PDP challenger clinched six local government areas.
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