Former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has described the President Bola Tinubu administration as the most corrupt in political history.

According to El-Rufai, who recently fell out with Tinubu's government, the administration depends on false propaganda, especially on security challenges bedevilling the country.

When asked to state what he felt was wrong with the government, he said, “I should ask you. Can you afford three square meals? Can your salary buy what it used to buy two years ago? I should ask you. There is nothing wrong with the government?”

The former governor lambasted the government for failing to proffer deeper solutions to address what he termed the prevailing security challenges from their roots.

According to him, many local government areas in Katsina, Zamfara and Sokoto States are currently controlled by bandits whose leaders like Dogo Gide, Mallam Abba and Bello Turji have not been killed.

“I have said it before, this is the worst federal government in Nigeria’s history and all the indices have shown it. This is the most corrupt and most intolerant government in Nigeria.

“This is the most lying government that depends on false propaganda. They lied that security has improved in Nigeria. They read out the number of bandits killed, except the ones we know are the leading bandits.

“In Kaduna, Dogo Gide is still around, Mallam Abba, the Boko Haram terrorist, is still alive. Bello Turji is still around but every day, they announce names of people who are bandits’ leaders that they have killed and security has improved.

“How many local governments are under the occupation of bandits in Katsina State? How many are occupied by bandits in Zamfara State and some parts of Sokoto State? And because you are in government, you think that nothing would happen, things will remain like that?

“It’s okay, you are free to engage in your grand delusion, but when you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth,” El-Rufai said.

On his support for Tinubu’s campaign in 2023, he said, “I was a state governor. Go and ask what I did in my state. Don’t even make me part of the federal government.

“Between 2015 and 2023, I was not part of it. What you can ask me and I can defend my tenure is what I did in Kaduna between 2015 and 2023. I had very little to do with the federal government.

“I was among those who formed the APC and I campaigned for President Buhari, (and of course the current president). Yes, I did. He was the candidate of my party and I campaigned for him. I was never part of his government.”

ASA