After a dispute over the current state of administration and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai retaliated against Daniel Bwala, President Bola Tinubu’s special adviser on policy communication.
Remember how Nasir El-Rufai declared he no longer recognized the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on January 28 after criticizing the party for “straying from its core values”?
El-Rufai called the situation of opposition and governance in Nigeria a “national emergency” while speaking at a national conference on bolstering democracy in the country in Abuja. “I am the founding member of the APC,” he declared.
To be honest, though, I no longer recognize the APC, No caucus, no NEC, no party organ has convened in the past two years. I’m not even sure if it’s a one-man operation. “It is a zero-man show,” El-Rufai declared during a national summit on bolstering Nigerian democracy.
In response to El-Rufai’s article, Bwala questioned the former governor’s viewpoint and inquired as to whether he would have maintained it had he been a member of President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet. “My older brother, would you have maintained and voiced the same opinion if you had been in the cabinet and government? There are plenty of examples in history.
It is a government that you helped build and that you now wish to overthrow. Bwala wrote, “Haba Mallam, a Ji soron Allah mana.” El-Rufai responded to Bwala’s comments on X on Thursday, saying he had no interest in working for Tinubu’s administration.
“I told Asiwaju that I had no interest in any role in his future government when I was a cabinet minister 22 years ago. El-Rufai stated, “The way you, late converts to the Tinubu administration, make a big deal out of something I never wanted in the first place shows how morally flexible you are.”
Even if he had been a member of the government, the former governor maintained that his views on the APC and Tinubu’s administration would not have changed.
“I would have continued to speak out about the tragedy within a party I helped found and the government that resulted from it—first privately with those involved, and then publicly if no corrective action was taken,” he continued, if he had stayed in the Tinubu administration.
El-Rufai called the situation of opposition and governance in Nigeria a “national emergency” while speaking at a national conference on bolstering democracy in the country in Abuja. “I am the founding member of the APC,” he declared.
To be honest, though, I no longer recognize the APC. No caucus, no NEC, no party organ has convened in the past two years. I’m not even sure if it’s a one-man operation. “It is a zero-man show,” El-Rufai declared during a national summit on bolstering Nigerian democracy.
In response to El-Rufai’s article, Bwala questioned the former governor’s viewpoint and inquired as to whether he would have maintained it had he been a member of President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet.
“My older brother, would you have maintained and voiced the same opinion if you had been in the cabinet and government? There are plenty of examples in history.
It is a government that you helped build and that you now wish to overthrow. Bwala wrote, “Haba Mallam, a Ji soron Allah mana.” El-Rufai responded to Bwala’s comments on X on Thursday, saying he had no interest in working for Tinubu’s administration.
“I told Asiwaju that I had no interest in any role in his future government when I was a cabinet minister 22 years ago. El-Rufai stated, “The way you, late converts to the Tinubu administration, make a big deal out of something I never wanted in the first place shows how morally flexible you are.”
Even if he had been a member of the government, the former governor maintained that his views on the APC and Tinubu’s administration would not have changed.