Nigeria: El-Rufai Replies Kaduna Lawmakers Over Corruption Allegation

“We affirm the integrity of the El-Rufai government and dismiss the scandalous claims being aired as the report of the committee.”

The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has denied any wrongdoing while in office and accused the state’s lawmakers of conducting a ‘jaundiced’ probe of his administration.

Mr El-Rufai, in a statement by his spokesperson, Muyiwa Adekeye, accused the ad-hoc committee that probed him of “merely going through the motions of an inquiry just to give…