Former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai has criticised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, accusing him of abandoning the founding beliefs of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and worsening Nigeria’s situation, Each day Belief studies.
In an interview with Deutsche Welle Hausa in Katsina, El-Rufai—as soon as an ally of Tinubu and a strategist within the APC’s 2015, 2019, and 2023 campaigns—mentioned:
“Since Tinubu turned president, Nigeria has been getting into reverse. Insecurity has worsened, the financial system is in shambles, and tribalism is now the yardstick for appointments.”
He mentioned the ruling occasion has strayed from its authentic focus “The APC we constructed was about justice, fairness, competence, and nationwide unity. What we see now’s nothing however injustice, nepotism, and conceitedness,” he mentioned. “I didn’t go away the APC—it’s the APC that left me.”
El-Rufai alleged that appointments within the Tinubu administration are based mostly on tribal issues and private ties.
“Anybody who will get an appointment should both be from his tribe or somebody he personally is aware of. Allow them to deny it, however Nigerians aren’t fools,” he mentioned.
On his transfer to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), El-Rufai said “The SDP is what the APC was alleged to be. It has now develop into a refuge for these looking for justice, equity, and progress. We’re strategizing day and night time to rescue Nigerians from the hardship they’re enduring beneath this administration.”
He criticised the APC management’s latest go to to former President Muhammadu Buhari.
“It was solely after I visited Buhari and left the APC that they remembered him. All of a sudden, they’re now operating to him, disturbing an previous man in the course of the night time,” he mentioned.
Talking on the occasion’s decline, El-Rufai mentioned he had warned key figures like Bisi Akande, Adams Oshiomhole, and Abdullahi Adamu.
“I requested them, ‘Is that this what we shaped the APC for?’ And so they admitted that the occasion has modified. So I left. Even a baby who goes astray is let go after repeated warnings,” he mentioned.
He added that the occasion’s failure to carry conferences for 2 years exhibits an absence of inner democracy.
“If a celebration can’t sit down and deliberate for 2 complete years, what sort of democracy are we speaking about?” he requested.
In accordance with El-Rufai, Nigerians are more and more turning to the SDP.
“Individuals are drained. You go to any state—Kaduna, Katsina, Gombe, Borno—you see crowds making an attempt to affix the SDP. My chairman in Katsina, Bello Safana, barely will get time to relaxation as a result of individuals preserve trooping in,” he mentioned.
He added that residents nonetheless recall previous achievements, “We all know what we’ve executed previously, and the individuals realize it too. A storm is coming, and when it hits, unhealthy leaders will return to their villages. The SDP will take over with management that actually serves the individuals,” he mentioned.
Reflecting on his assist for Tinubu in 2023, El-Rufai mentioned “All of us knew in regards to the Chicago points, however we believed in what he did in Lagos and hoped he may replicate it. Sadly, we have been improper.”
He additionally criticised Tinubu’s actions in Rivers State, together with the suspension of Governor Siminalayi Fubara and different officers.
“Some actions are so clearly improper that no excuse can justify them,” he mentioned.
When requested for a remark, presidential adviser Bayo Onanuga responded,
“I have to learn El-Rufai’s assertion first.”
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