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The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, has issued a riposte to the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala.<\/p>\n
Recall that El-Rufai had criticised the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for straying away from its core values, adding that he no longer recognises his own political party.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am a founding member of the APC. But frankly, I no longer recognise the APC. No party organ has met in two years \u2014 no caucus, no NEC, nothing. I don\u2019t even know if it is a one-man show. It is a zero-man show,\u201d el-Rufai said at a national conference on strengthening democracy in Nigeria, which was held in Abuja.<\/p>\n
Responding to El-Rufai\u2019s outburst, Bwala asked the ex-minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) if his take on the APC would have been different had he been a member of Tinubu\u2019s cabinet.<\/p>\n
Recall that on August 7, 2023, the Senate withheld el-Rufai\u2019s clearance as minister over security issues.<\/p>\n
In his response to Bwala in a post on X on Thursday, El-Rufai said, \u201cThe pathetic manner in which 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I had remained in the Tinubu government, I would have said or done the same on the tragedy within a party I founded, and the government that emerged from it \u2014 first in private sessions with those concerned, and then go public if no remedial actions are taken,\u201d the APC chieftain added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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