My comments on World Bank loan not in el-Rufai’s speech — Bala

…says Senate abandoned facts for sentiments

THE Deputy Governor of Kaduna State, Barnabas Bala, has clarified statement credited to Governor Nasir el-Rufai that the World Bank told him no other state would access its loan since Kaduna was denied, saying “it is neither my view nor that of Kaduna State Government.”

The Deputy Governor, who regretted the statement, spoke on Monday at a ceremony of the Barnawa branch of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, contending that though the views were not in Governor el-Rufai’s speech which he read, in trying to highlight points on the refused loan, “I inadvertently strayed beyond affirming my sense of outrage.”

His statement

In a statement, Bala said: “As the Deputy Governor of Kaduna State, I am understandably unimpressed by the specious and unbecoming arguments that…