The governorship flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, yesterday, said the presidential candidate of the APC, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), would inherit a battered economy from the current government if elected as president in February.
El-Rufai equally admitted that he would as well inherit a bankrupt state after the governorship election if he was elected as the first citizen of Kaduna.
The former minister of the Federal Capital Territory spoke at an Organised Private Sector’s interactive session in Kaduna.
He said about N700bn had been lavished in the past seven years in the state, a situation he described as “most unfortunate.”
El-Rufai noted that the nation was currently going through an economic crisis as it was in 1983.
“General Muhammadu Buhari will be inheriting a broken economy like he did in 1983, just like I am going to likely inherit a bankrupt state when we take over power,” he said.
He pledged that if elected in the February 28 governorship poll, he would, among other things, develop human capital, ensure a free and compulsory education for the first nine years for all children in the state as well as fix schools and improve teachers’ training.
Other areas to receive his attention, el-Rufai said, were the security of lives and property of the people of the state.
The former minister, who described the Agricultural Transformation Agenda of the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government as a complete failure, promised to provide meaningful agricultural enabling environment for farmers by setting up of marketing boards, adding that the APC government would transfer mining rights to states.
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