Posted by Samuel on Thu 30th Jan, 2025 - tori.ng
El-Rufai had criticised the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for straying away from its core values, adding that he no longer recognises his own political party.
The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, has issued a riposte to the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala.
Recall that El-Rufai had criticized the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for straying away from its core values, adding that he no longer recognises his own political party.
“I am a founding member of the APC. But frankly, I no longer recognise the APC. No party organ has met in two years — no caucus, no NEC, nothing. I don’t even know if it is a one-man show. It is a zero-man show,” el-Rufai said at a national conference on strengthening democracy in Nigeria, which was held in Abuja.
Responding to El-Rufai’s outburst, Bwala asked the ex-minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) if his take on the APC would have been different had he been a member of Tinubu’s cabinet.
Recall that on August 7, 2023, the Senate withheld el-Rufai’s clearance as minister over security issues.
In his response to Bwala in a post on X on Thursday, El-Rufai said, “The pathetic manner in which all of you latter-day converts to the Tinubu government make an issue of something that I never wanted in the first place is perhaps a reflection of the level of your moral flexibility.
“If I had remained in the Tinubu government, I would have said or done the same on the tragedy within a party I founded, and the government that emerged from it — first in private sessions with those concerned, and then go public if no remedial actions are taken,” the APC chieftain added.