Come out with evidence, El-Rufai challenges WikiLeaks,

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai yesterday described as false and fairy tales, reports by Wikileaks that he influenced the award of contracts worth $50m to the brother of Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
El-Rufai also denied seeking loans to import a taxi, adding that there was no need to do so or consider importing a taxi ever from anywhere, let alone from the United Kingdom which has a different driving system.
In a statement signed yesterday by his Media Advisor, Muyiwa Adekeye, the former Minister who disclosed that he was not homeless before he came to government as reported against the backdrop that he acquired his first house in 1988, in Kaduna, said, “regarding the claim that he possesses seven upscale properties in Abuja, he requests the talebearers at the American embassy to show him their location so that he can repossess them. The same reliance on malicious and unfounded rumours leads the American embassy to false reporting on the clean-up of Kubwa to avert flooding disasters.

Mallam Nasir El-Rufai

“Mallam El Rufai is also baffled by the claim that he influenced the award of Ministry of Finance contracts worth $50 million to the brother of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. He was not in charge of that ministry, but he was aware that the entire capital budget of the Finance minister was not near that amount.
“As regards other reports that the said contract was for waste collection in the FCT administration, none of Okonjo-Iweala’s siblings or their company was amongst the dozen companies selected via advertised competitive bidding to handle waste collection in Abuja. The records of these companies are still in the FCT administration for anyone wishing to check. And the FCT spent much less than a fraction of the stated amount for all the cleaning contracts! El Rufai did not award or steer any contract to Mrs Okonjo-Iweala’s siblings.”