Nasir el-Rufa, the governor of Kaduna State, has urged his predecessors to appear and take an oath with the Holy Quran to show that they did not misappropriate public funds while in government.
The Governor said that the majority of the previous governors tampered with the government's finances during their tenure in an interview with the Kaduna State Media Corporation's Hausa service.
El-rufai would end his eight-year term the following week.
He issued the challenge in response to criticisms of some of his policies from the opposition, adamant that he had never embezzled public funds.
â€I didn’t build any mansion, I don’t need it. I didn’t steal anybody’s money and I am challenging everyone that has governed this state to come out and swear with the Qur’an that, when they were governing the state, they didn’t steal a kobo of Kaduna resources that is not their entitlement.
“I swear to God, I will do that swearing. So, I am challenging all of them. Everyone should come out and face the people of Kaduna State and tell them he didn’t steal their money,†he said.