El-Rufai Drags Kaduna Assembly to Court, Gives Reason
- Nasir El-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna state, has dragged the state House of Assembly before the federal high court in the state
- El-Rufai is asking the court to declare the report of the house committee indicting him and his administration of ₦432bn corruption allegation as null and void
- According to the former governor, the committee did not give him a fair hearing before concluding its investigation
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The immediate past governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai, has filed a suit against the Kaduna state House of Assembly over the allegation that his administration for eight years siphoned ₦432bn and left the state in huge debt.
El-Rufai dragged the State House of Assembly before the Federal High Court in Kaduna in a fundamental human rights suit.
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How El-Rufai filed suit against Kaduna Assembly
According to Channels TV, the counsel to the former governor, Abdulhakeem Mustapha, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, challenged the House committee's report, which indicted El-Rufai with corruption allegations.
In the suit, the former governor told the court that the outcome of the assembly probe should be declared null and void because he was not given the grace of a fair hearing on the allegations of corruption levelled against him and his administration by the House Committee.
The Kaduna State House of Assembly, the attorney general, and the commissioner for justice are defendants in the suit.
Why Kaduna assembly probed El-Rufai
The Kaduna State House of Assembly's ad-hoc committee set up to investigate the administration of El-Rufai recently submitted its report to the house.
Henry Zacharia, the chairman of the committee set up to probe all finances, loans, and contracts awarded during El-Rufai's administration, gave an account of their findings on Wednesday, June 5.
According to Zacharia, most of the loans El-Rufai's administration obtained were used for purposes other than those for which they were received. He added that in some cases, due processes were not followed.
After receiving the report, Yusuf Liman, the speaker of the Kaduna state assembly, stated that the previous administration diverted a total of N423 billion, leaving the state in huge debt.
El-Rufai breaks silence on corruption allegation
Legit.ng earlier reported that El-Rufai had predicted the fall of his successor, Governor Uba Sani, over his administration's policies.
El-Rufai urged his supporters to support Sani's government with prayers and not to feel disturbed by the move against him.
The former Kaduna governor added that he remains unperturbed by the state assembly's move to probe his administration.
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