APC has blasted El-Rufai over his desperate romance with Atiku’s camp.
NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has asserted that the former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, is desperate for recognition, and the party is not losing sleep over his political romance with the camp of ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and the Social Democratic Party, (SDP).
Recall that El-Rufai, a prominent APC chieftain, held a closed-door meeting with the SDP leadership and some allies of Atiku, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The meeting, which took place at the national secretariat of the SDP, also had Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer of General Sani Abacha and a former spokesman of Atiku Abubakar, Segun Showunmi, among others.
Although the agenda was not made public, there were speculations that El-Rufai was aligning with the major opposition figures to oust President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
However, the National Chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Shehu Musa Gabam, dismissed reports suggesting an alliance between the party, Atiku Abubakar or El-Rufai.
Gabam, during an appearance on TVC’s Politics Today, categorically stated that there had been no discussions about forming alliances with political figures or parties.
Reacting to the development, the National Vice Chairman of the APC (South-East), Ijeoma Arodiogbu, in an interview with Punch, said the ruling party was not worried over the moves by the opposition figures.
Arodiogbu stated that after the 2023 election, El-Rufai has displayed himself as someone who cannot be trusted across the regions of the country.
He argued that the controversial reforms that the opposition may be planning to campaign with are currently yielding the desired results Nigerians anticipated.
The APC chieftain also said Nigerians are beginning to understand Tinubu’s reforms and cannot afford to surrender the leadership to desperate politicians whose sole interest is state capture.
He said, “As it is in the Bible, surely they shall gather and they shall scatter. We are not worried that they are gathering because they will definitely scatter. We are not worried about what El-Rufai does next. We know that his trajectory in politics is highly disturbed now.
