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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna, has asked Uba Sani, govenor of the state, to probe the administration of Nasir el-Rufai, his predecessor.

Last week, Sani said he inherited a debt burden of $587 million, N85 billion and 115 contractual liabilities from the administration of el-Rufai.

In a statement released on Friday, Abraham Catoh, PDP spokesperson in Kaduna, said Sani should set up a “judicial commission of inquiry” to investigate the debts and contractual liabilities inherited from el-Rufai.

The party also urged the governor to constitute a panel to investigate the illegal sale of the state’s landed properties in the last eight years, noting that those found guilty should be brought to book.

Catoh said Sani should “set up another high-powered civil service reforms commission of inquiry to review and ascertain the modalities used in sacking the over 27,000 workers from the state civil service without payment of their entitlements and the bastardization of the civil service” during El-Rufai’s administration.

“Though it did not come to us as a surprise, we believed that this revelation was just a scratch on the surface of the real issues therein,” the statement reads.

“We encourage him to go full-fledged in this show of transparency.

“We, as an opposition party, are in full support of any plan by the government that would bring development to our dear State, bearing in mind that we shall always kick against anything short of that.”