A former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said
that President Bola Tinubu and his supporters would learn their lessons in
2027.
El-Rufai said that the efforts of governors from the north
to ensure that Tinubu became President in 2023 have been undermined.
In an interview on Arise News, the former FCT Minister
pointed that Tinubu and his ‘puppeteers’ now feel that they could have won the
2027 election without the help and support he and other Northern governors
provided.
El-Rufai was one of the people who supported Tinubu.
Prior to the election, Tinubu, candidate of the ruling All
Progressives Congress, APC, did not take part in any debate.
Asked if there was something about the former Senator that
he detected that separated him from the pack and made him get his support so
totally in 2022, El-Rufai answered:
“For us as Northern APC governors, the first concern we had
was, after eight years of Buhari, power should go to the South. We believed
that there was such an understanding in our party.
“We’re part of the formation of the party, and we felt that
that was an honorable thing that must be upheld. So that was the first step.
“So we didn’t start by saying we want A or B to be
president. We just said, look power should go to the south. That was the first
step.
“The second step is now that power has gone to the South.
Who do we support that we think will have a chance of winning?
“Because you want your party to win, you want to be the
party in power. And lots of calculations went into that, and Bola Tinubu became
the beneficiary of that, but we didn’t start with supporting a candidate. No,
no, no.
“And I want to say that it was the support of the governors
of the north west, north east and north central that was decisive in deciding
the outcome of the primaries, as well as the election.
“Of course, Bola Tinubu puppeteers are now denying that.
They are saying all kinds of things, and they will learn their lesson in 2027.”
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