Naija Wahala
Former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has revealed that he sought the blessings of former President Muhammadu Buhari before he decamped from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to join the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
El-Rufai revealed this in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service.
According to him, he did nothing without seeking Buhari’s consent and advice.
In his words:
“The APC has derailed, the party is no longer abiding by its founding principles. Everyone is working for themselves, looking for money. The government commercialized, and everything has a price tag. Justice has been kept at bay, and those who worked for the party were ignored instead of compensated. If there is any position or appointment, they give it to a Lagos boy, etc.”
“That is why we’ve been speaking, we spoke, we said this is not the party we know. The party is dead. I said the only option was for me to meet Pastor Tunde Bakare because he dragged me into APC. He took me to Buhari. I did not join the APC because of Buhari, it was Pastor Bakare who dragged me to APC, and courtesy demands I should let him know .”
” Buhari too, I told him I was leaving the party, and I sounded ht his blessings and prayers. He said he had given me his blessings and prayers. We are the ones in politics, he (Buhari) is now the father of the land and has been praying for us, so what remains?”
