El-Rufai.
Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday said
most people believe Governors are corrupt and
ineffective.
He made the comment on Sunrise Daily while responding
to a question about why he believes the worst job in Nigeria is to
be a Governor.
El-Rufai said his perspective was shaped by his time in
office.
“We came into office at a very bad time in terms of economic
viability,” he said. We came in when oil prices were crashing into
the twenties and we had inherited bureaucracies that were designed
and structured around $100 per barrel oil. We had inherited wages
at that level as well. And all of a sudden, there was this collapse
and Nigeria went into a recession.”
Despite the recession, he said, people still expected progress
to happen “overnight”.
“Governors are the most suspected elected officials,” El-Rufai
continued. “Everyone thinks Governors are just thieves and we are
wasting state resources, we are not doing anything. Governors are
assumed to be taking security votes. When people hear security
votes, they think it is a slush fund for Governors. So we have a
very negative image out there.
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“Meanwhile, we have one of the most difficult jobs in the world.
And we are subnational; our capacity to borrow is limited. The
Federal Government can print money. We cannot.
“Other than Lagos, very few state governments have room to
do what they can do because apart from Lagos virtually every state
in Nigeria relies on Federation Account transfers. And when they go
down, you are in trouble.
The Governor was speaking on the heels of the fifth edition of
Kadinvest, the state government’s investment forum.
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