The immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has made startling allegations against a governor from the northwest region, accusing him of manipulating election results instead of conducting fair elections.
El-Rufai made these revelations during a seminar held in Maiduguri, where he was delivering a keynote address to senior officials of the Borno State government.
He recounted how the northwest governor had approached him seeking guidance on conducting credible elections but instead resorted to fraudulent practices.
According to El-Rufai; “While I was the Governor of Kaduna State, I introduced electronic voting and conducted local government election with it. After the election, we lost about three to four local government areas to the opposition, because of the credibility of the election. And because we were transparent in the election, some of those opposition candidates decamped to our party because of our fairness in the election.
“I remember that one governor from the Northwest who loved the conduct of the election through electronic voting asked me to assist him with the technology I used in the election, but because it has the state logo, I told him that it would not cost more than 10,000 US dollars, so that he can get the equipment to conduct his state LGA election electronically. But after that conversation, I did not hear from him again, he went back home and conducted his election by writing the results as usual,” El-Rufai said.