Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has responded to statements credited to the former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, saying, he should not personalise the ecological fund report.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan had accused El-Rufai of lying against him while he debunked allegations of discrimination in the disbursement of ecological funds under his administration.
Addressing newsmen in Kaduna yesetday, the Senior Special Assistant on media and publicity to the Governor, Samuel Aruwan said that former President Jonathan would have waited for the presentation of the final report of the ad-hoc committee before responding.
"On Thursday, May 25, 2017, Malam Nasir El-Rufai presented an interim report of the National Economic Council (NEC) Ad-Hoc Committee on the management of Ecological Fund.
This committee was set up on April 27 2017, with 11 members, including seven Governors, Ministers and Permanent Secretaries El-Rufai tackles GEJ over personalizing ecological fund report
"Following the presentation of the interim report, El-Rufai briefed the press on the highlights of the report in his capacity as chairman of the ad-hoc committee.
“The interim report detailed how 17 states each received N2bn direct support from the ecological fund in 2013 while 19 other states and the FCT did not receive the direct support.
“Also, 15 out of the 17 recipient states had governors from the then ruling party (PDP) while the governors of Ondo and Anambra were from PDP-allied parties.
As the chairman of the ad-hoc committee, Malam El-Rufai drew the attention of NEC and the public to the skewed pattern of allocating the ecological funds," he explained.
He however accused the former President Jonathan of launching a personal attack on Governor El-Rufai, saying, “Dr. Jonathan strained to explain away this strange pattern of fund allocation but the facts are not deniable. They are in official records, and cannot be erased by slinging mud at people."
"As chairman of the NEC Ad-hoc Committee on the Ecological Fund, El-Rufai wishes to advise Dr. Jonathan to wait for the presentation of the final report of the committee before responding.
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