Exasperated by the noticeable improvements in the economy, and unable to cite hardship as justification for his acidic political campaign against the Bola Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC) administration, former Kaduna State governor and chieftain of the political coalition assembled to take the presidency in 2027, Nasir el-Rufai, has changed tack.. . Continue..Reading. .
Instead of whining on behalf of the poor and hungry and angry, as he was wont many months ago, he has now begun to seize upon extraneous reasons to pillory the administration.
If he is not drawing attention to what he described as the dictatorial tendency of President Tinubu, he is griping about his unsubstantiated fear that the president might want to be a life president should he win a second term.
The former governor made the wild life presidency claim when former vice president Atiku Abubakar paid him a visit at his Abuja home last week. First he flattered his visitor by falsely describing him as a fighter who took on the military, and then went on to serenade him as a man of experience in democratic governance.
In addition, he arrogantly suggested that Nigerians had made up their minds to unseat the APC in favour of the coalition, and without addressing the inconvenient fact of how the former vice president split the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and stood unmovable on that division, he also described Alhaji Atiku as a man of forbearance and diplomatic skills in bringing people together.If You’re Reading From Phoenix Click On Read Original at the top To Read Full Article
Like everything about Mallam el-Rufai’s hyperbole, his insinuations about President Tinubu’s life presidency ambition remain unsubstantiated. But does he care?
𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀𝗔𝗽𝗽 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗧𝗼 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗔𝘀 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝗽!
