The verbal exchange between former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai and presidential media aide Daniel Bwala escalated on Thursday, with El-Rufai asserting that he would still criticize the All Progressives Congress (APC) if he were serving as a minister in President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet.
El-Rufai made the remark during a national conference in Abuja on Monday, where he stated that he no longer recognized the APC, claiming the party had shifted towards being a one-man show.
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“You cannot afford to have illiterates, semi-illiterates, and cunning people as your leaders. This is why we end up with the poor leadership we have today,” he had said, criticising the leadership of the party.
Bwala replied on X, stating that El-Rufai would not have made such a statement if he were serving in President Tinubu’s cabinet.
He said, “My Senior brother, if you were to be in the government and cabinet, would you have held and expressed the same position? History is replete with examples. It is a government you participated in its formation, that you now want to unseat. Haba Mallam.”
Replying to the presidential aide on X, El-Rufai said, “I was cabinet minister 22 years ago, and was clear to Asiwaju that I was not interested in any position in his future government. The pathetic manner all of you latter-day converts to the Tinubu government make an issue of something that I never wanted in the first place is perhaps a reflection of the level of your moral flexibility.
“If I had remained in the Tinubu government, I will say or do the same on the tragedy within a party I was a founder, and the government that emerged from it – first in private sessions with those concerned, and then go public if no remedial actions are taken. Go and check my public service record from 1998.”
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