In a recent television interview, el-Rufai said the projects inaugurated by the president were initiatives started by his administration.

However, in a statement issued on Tuesday, Ibraheem Musa, chief press secretary (CPS) to Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna, described el-Rufai’s claims as “bare-faced lies” and “blatant distortion of the truth”.

Musa listed three major projects commissioned by the president, including the Institutes of Vocational Training and Skills Development, the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Specialist Hospital, and 100 compressed natural gas (CNG) buses.

He added that three institutes in Rigachikun, Soba, and Samaru Kataf were “fully initiated and completed by the administration of Governor Uba Sani”.

“These institutes are pivotal to Governor Uba Sani’s human capital development agenda, designed to equip Kaduna’s youth with practical, future-ready skills. Collectively, they are projected to graduate at least 36,000 youths annually,” the statement reads.

The CPS said the state government launched the CNG buses initiative as a direct response to the removal of the petrol subsidy.

He noted that the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Specialist Hospital was originally conceptualised during the tenure of former Vice-President Namadi Sambo, who was also a former governor of the state, but had remained uncompleted through three successive administrations.

He said the hospital was only 53 percent complete without medical equipment and had become “a symbol of waste, mismanagement, and abandonment” when Sani took over as the governor of Kaduna.

“The Bola Ahmed Tinubu Specialist Hospital stands as a signature achievement of Governor Uba Sani’s administration. He gave it his all—failure was never an option,” Musa said.

“In light of these tangible and verifiable achievements, Malam Nasir El-Rufai’s resort to distortions and falsehoods is regrettable but not surprising.

“While he is entitled to his opinions, facts remain sacred. Governor Uba Sani has succeeded where others faltered. No amount of revisionism can rewrite the truth.”