Vice President Kashim Shettima on Thursday disclosed that the All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the African Democratic Congress (ADC) coalition are all one, despite their different political inclinations.
Shettima made this disclosure while referring to a key member of the ADC coalition, Nasir El-Rufai, as his elder brother.
The Vice President spoke during the unveiling of the book “OPL245: The Inside Story of the $1.3b Nigerian Oil Bloc,” authored by a former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN.
He described the former presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, as a “fire-spitting” leader.
Shettima stated that what binds the political class together is stronger than what divides them.
Shettima said: “The game changer, is he still around? No, the game changer has left. But the enfant terrible of the Nigerian Governors’ Club, hate him, love him, but you cannot ignore him. Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai, former Governor of Kaduna State, and the fire-spitting leader of the Kwankwassiyya Movement, Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. So many dignitaries, which reflects the eclectic crowd of friends that Mohammed Bello Adoke maintains. We have PDP.
We have new PDP. We have the coalition heavily represented by my elder brother, Malam Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai. We have the NNPP, APP, APC. This is a reflection, this is a kaleidoscope of colours.
What binds us together surpasses whatever divides us. Former IGP MD Abubakar is a PDP man, or let me say sympathetic to PDP. We are all one. I have the best of relationships with him in spite of our minor political differences.
And of course, Senator Daggash, are you in ADC or APC or PDP? Only God knows where you belong.”
