{"id":173984,"date":"2024-06-06T07:27:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T05:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-el-rufai-replies-kaduna-lawmakers-over-corruption-allegation\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T07:27:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T05:27:19","slug":"nigeria-el-rufai-replies-kaduna-lawmakers-over-corruption-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-el-rufai-replies-kaduna-lawmakers-over-corruption-allegation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: El-Rufai Replies Kaduna Lawmakers Over Corruption Allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>&#8220;We affirm the integrity of the El-Rufai government and dismiss the scandalous claims being aired as the report of the committee.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has denied any wrongdoing while in office and accused the state&#8217;s lawmakers of conducting a &#8216;jaundiced&#8217; probe of his administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Mr El-Rufai, in a statement by his spokesperson, Muyiwa Adekeye, accused the ad-hoc committee that probed him of &#8220;merely going through the motions of an inquiry just to give&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406060120.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We affirm the integrity of the El-Rufai government and dismiss the scandalous claims being aired as the report of the committee.&#8221; The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has denied any wrongdoing while in office and accused the state&#8217;s lawmakers of conducting a &#8216;jaundiced&#8217; probe of his administration. Mr El-Rufai, in a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":173985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,13514,4723,21159,3153,14377,257,4687,393,22028,254],"class_list":["post-173984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegation","tag-corruption","tag-elrufai","tag-kaduna","tag-lawmakers","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-replies","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}