A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dele Momodu, has explained why the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, named detained former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, as deputy chairman of his campaign council.
Speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s ‘The
Morning Brief’ on Friday, Momodu said the gesture was to honour El-Rufai’s
sacrifices.
Recall that Atiku on Thursday unveiled the ADC Presidential
Campaign Council ahead of the 2027 polls.
Kashim Ibrahim-Imam was named chairman, with El-Rufai as
deputy chairman.
Reacting, Momodu said, “It is a way of honouring his
sacrifice because his travails, I can say, are quite political in nature.
“He’s being held down not because he has committed any
crime. He could have stayed away from the country. He chose to come back to the
country. He knew he was going to be arrested, and he was arrested.
“The bail conditions given to him are so horrendous that
even his enemies would wonder why he has to go through such painful experience
in the hands of a government that he helped to midwife.
“If not for him, I’m sure President Bola Tinubu will not be
in the office today.”
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