Kaduna‎ House Of Assembly Denies Plan To Impeach Governor El-Rufai

The Speaker of Kaduna‎ House of Assembly, Yusuf Zailani, on Sunday, said there was no plan to impeach the state Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.

The Speaker said the alleged impeachment move is the handiwork of the opposition and people who are not pleased wth the relationship between El-Rufai and the lawmakers.

Zailani who was reacting to the purported impeachment plan against the state governor, further stated that the opposition was planning to deny the people of dividends of democracy.

In a statement released by the Special Assistant on Media ‎ and Publicity to the Speaker, Ibrahim Dahiru Danfulani, he called on the public to disregard the report.

The statement read, “The Attention of the Speaker of Kaduna State House of Assembly has been drawn to report of purported impeachment moves against Gov. Nasir El-Rufai over corruption allegations circulating on social platforms.

“This is simply the handiwork of opposition and enemies of progress of the relationship between the legislative arm of government and the executive under the able leadership of Malam Nasir el-Rufai, apparently to create crises between the legislative and the executive and to deny the good people of Kaduna State the dividends of democracy they are benefitting courtesy of the good working relationship between the executive and the legislative.

“The report which also said the relationship between the governor and the Speaker of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Honourable Yusuf Zailani, has been frosty for quite some time now is also nothing but the figment of the imagination of the writer and perhaps their sponsors.

“I, therefore, wish to state categorically that the entire report is maliciously concorted to misinform the general public and should be disregarded in its entirety.