{"id":30204,"date":"2020-09-21T15:48:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T15:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=30204"},"modified":"2020-09-21T15:48:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T15:48:02","slug":"nigerians-believe-governors-are-corrupt-thieves-gov-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-believe-governors-are-corrupt-thieves-gov-el-rufai","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians believe governors are corrupt, thieves \u2013 Gov El-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has said most people see Governors as thieves, corrupt and ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor said this in response to questions on why he believes being a governor is the worst job in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He made the claims when he appeared on Channel Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily programme.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai said that despite the recession people still expect progress to happen \u201covernight\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernors are the most suspected elected officials,\u201d El-Rufai said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone thinks Governors are just thieves and we are wasting state resources, we are not doing anything. Governors are assumed to be taking security votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen people hear security votes, they think it is a slush fund for Governors. So we have a very negative image out there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has said most people see Governors as thieves, corrupt and ineffective. The Governor said this in response to questions on why he believes being a governor is the worst job in Nigeria. He made the claims when he appeared on Channel Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily programme. El-Rufai said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":12333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[326,1048],"class_list":["post-30204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-el-rufai","tag-kaduna-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerians believe governors are corrupt, thieves \u2013 Gov El-Rufai - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has said most people see Governors as thieves, corrupt\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-believe-governors-are-corrupt-thieves-gov-el-rufai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerians believe governors are corrupt, thieves \u2013 Gov El-Rufai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has said most people see Governors as thieves, corrupt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-believe-governors-are-corrupt-thieves-gov-el-rufai\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-21T15:48:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/Governor-Nasir-el-Rufai.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"681\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-believe-governors-are-corrupt-thieves-gov-el-rufai#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-believe-governors-are-corrupt-thieves-gov-el-rufai\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerians believe governors are corrupt, thieves \u2013 Gov El-Rufai\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-21T15:48:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-believe-governors-are-corrupt-thieves-gov-el-rufai\"},\"wordCount\":133,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-believe-governors-are-corrupt-thieves-gov-el-rufai#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/07\/Governor-Nasir-el-Rufai.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"El-Rufai\",\"Kaduna State\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-believe-governors-are-corrupt-thieves-gov-el-rufai#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-believe-governors-are-corrupt-thieves-gov-el-rufai\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerians-believe-governors-are-corrupt-thieves-gov-el-rufai\",\"name\":\"Nigerians believe governors are corrupt, thieves \u2013 Gov El-Rufai - 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