By Abayomi Elias
The Senior Special Assistant to President on Community Engagement in North-West Abdullahi Tanko Yakasai on National Television wondered why former Governor of Kaduna State Mallam Nasir El-Rufai became bittered for not getting the ministerial appointment in the President Tinubu’s administration.
Newsconnect reports that Abdullahi on Sunrise Daily on channels Television gave reason to justify that APC is not afraid of the coalition of some political stakeholders into ADC, he further said the likes of El-Rufai, Amaechi are power mongers who had repeatedly refused to work with the President ab-initio despite being in the same party.
The truth be told, Mallam Nasir El Rufai never wanted Asiwaju, .He went back and did his calculation and realize that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is going to be the candidate.
“Three things played out during that campaign. 1 power must rotate to the south. 2, Candidates that can win the primary at that time. 3 We will not allow PDP to come back to power.
“These were three fundamental things that were on the ground. Believe you me, Mallam Nasiru said ao many things about Asiwaju before the build up to the primary election.
“We lost Kaduna state in the presidential election. For me Nasir El-Rufai never wanted Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be the President of this country
“He went, sat and did this calculation, and found that there is no anybody in that our APC from the South that could emrge candidate of that party that was how he now gave in.
“After Mr President went and campaign in Kaduna, it was surprising to us Ameachi went to Kaduna two days later , Mallam El-Rufai accorded him all the paraphernalia of government.
“If he was with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu the way our former governor , the way Kano state delegate during the primaries stood behind The president, If Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has been there, day 1, we would know he was truly for President Ahmed Tinubu.
“Amaechi on the other hand has become a bad loser. Since Amechi lost the primary, President Tinubu has sent emissaries to Ameachi, please let’s work together, he was so bittered, he thought he was going to win, he wanted to be the candidate of APC at that time at Eagle square.
“The capacity of Asiwaju didn’t make him get the ticket. From there on, he was so bittered”. He said
Former DG Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) Ladan Salihu on the show said the fear of the coalition is the beginning of wisdom.
“We in the coalition we have gone past all these polemics, and narratives that are skewed on sentiments and emotions that do not count, they don’t add up. We are not worried about personalities, it is beyond the issue of unseating Tinubu, it is about replacing an incompetent government.
“A government that brought anguish and agony to Nigerians. A government that is insensitive of challenges of poverty biting daily and the challenges of insecurity for the first time under our nose.
“Anybody that has any iota of regard for public respect should not even come on national television to romanticize and celebrate this government that is corruption on a ground scale”. He said .