The Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Kaduna, the highest organ of the party in the state, on Saturday, has passed a vote of confidence in governor Uba Sani.
Former governor, Nasir El-Rufai, was conspicuosly missing at the state’s executive committee meeting of the party. The meeting is meant for party members who currently hold — or have held — top public positions in Kaduna or in the country.
The committee commended the governor’s “rural transformation initiatives and exemplary youth and women empowerment programmes”.
Tajudeen Abbas, Speaker of the House of Representatives; Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, a former governor of Kaduna; Datti Babawo, Vice-Chair of the APC in the north-west; and Yusuf Dahiru Liman, Speaker of the Kaduna House of Assembly, were present at the meeting.
Sani has fallen out with his predecessor, El-Rufai, in the last few months.
The relationship between el-Rufai and Sani deteriorated in the last couple of months.
Sani revealed a few months ago, that his administration inherited a debt of $587 million, N85 billion, and 115 contractual liabilities from the El-Rufai administration.
The Kaduna governor said the huge debt burden is eating deep into the state’s share of the monthly federation allocation.
After the revelation, an Ad Hoc Committee set up by the house of assembly, recommended a probe of el-Rufai, who has not dragged the assembly to court over claim that his administration mismanaged N423billion.
