Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State has lambasted the three senators representing the state as useless following suspicion they’re working against a World Bank loan request by the state government.
El-Rufai’s extraordinary rant was made Friday, five weeks after the senators — Shehu Sani (Kaduna Central), Sulieman Hukunyi (Kaduna North), and Danjuma Leah (Kaduna South) — blocked a $350m loan request by the Kaduna government.
The lawmakers posited that the loan would erode the economic viability of the state, in continuation of the discord among the political elites of the north-west state.
But el-Rufai, while speaking at the inauguration of the All Progressives Congress’ campaign for the local government election in the state at the Kaduna Township Stadium, described the lawmakers as the enemies of democracy and the state, Punch writes.
“The senators from the state who worked against the World Bank loan are useless; they came out and said this loan should not be given. What is their reason for rejecting the loan? It is because they are haters of the masses in Kaduna State,” El-Rufai said in Hausa.
