A presidential media aide Daniel Bwala has faulted ex-governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, for saying the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) lacked inside democracy and energetic celebration buildings.
In a submit on X (previously Twitter), Bwala mentioned El-Rufai wouldn’t have expressed such a place if he have been within the cupboard of President Bola Tinubu.
On Monday, El-Rufai spoke at a nationwide convention in Abuja, saying he now not recognise the APC and that the celebration has tended towards a one-man present.
“You can not afford to have illiterates, semi-illiterates, and crafty folks as your leaders. For this reason we find yourself with the poor management we’ve got in the present day,” he had mentioned, criticising the management of the celebration.
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Replying to the previous governor’s remark, Bwala mentioned, “My Senior brother, in case you have been to be within the authorities and cupboard, would you may have held and expressed the identical place? Historical past is replete with examples. It’s a authorities you participated in its formation, that you simply now need to unseat. Haba Mallam.”
My Senior brother, in case you have been to be within the authorities and cupboard, would you may have held and expressed the identical place? Historical past is replete with examples. It’s a authorities you participated in its formation, that you simply now need to unseat. Haba Mallam, a Ji soron Allah mana
— D. H Bwala (@BwalaDaniel) January 28, 2025
El-Rufai: Tinubu’s Ally-Turned-Outsider
El-Rufai was one of many northern powerbrokers who insisted that the APC presidential ticket for the 2023 basic elections be given to a southern candidate in keeping with the unwritten precept of rotation of energy between the southern and the northern areas in Nigeria. This was after the eight-year tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari, from the North-West geopolitical zone.
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El-Rufai, who was Kaduna governor between Could 2015 and Could 2023, was vocal in his selection of ex-Lagos governor Bola Tinubu because the flag bearer of the celebration within the final basic elections.
The then Kaduna governor, alongside his northern colleagues, backed Tinubu in opposition to two different northern juggernauts who have been additionally aspirants – – then Senate President Ahmad Lawan and ex-Jigawa governor, Mohammed Badaru.
Tinubu later clinched the APC ticket and was elected Nigeria’s president throughout the February 2023 presidential ballot.
In Nigeria’s political turf the place compensation politics has develop into nearly a norm, Tinubu nominated El-Rufai as one in every of his ministers three months after his inauguration.
Nevertheless, El-Rufai fell out with the movers and shakers within the present authorities and was rejected by the Senate throughout the ministerial screening course of. The higher legislative chamber cited safety causes from the Division of State Companies as one of many causes for his rejection.
Because the August 2023 incident, El-Rufai has not been seen in a gathering of APC chieftains. The previous governor has additionally not been seen across the Aso Villa, the seat of energy, or close to the president whom he vigorously campaigned for within the final ballot.
Conversely, El-Rufai has been noticed with chieftains of the Social Democratic Occasion (SDP) fuelling defection rumours, which he has dismissed. El-Rufai’s relationship along with his successor, Sani Uba, in Kaduna, has turned bitter with the state meeting probing his eight-year administration for alleged corruption, an allegation denied by the ex-governor.
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