Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-rufai has come under heavy verbal attack following his Monday night interview.<\/p>\nDuring an interview on Arise TV, El-rufai criticized President Bola Tinubu, the present administration and some key elements in the government.<\/p>\n
El-Rufai claimed that President Tinubu did not want him in his cabinet, exonerating members of the National Assembly, who actually screened him out.<\/p>\n
In August 2023, the Senate withheld the confirmation of the former governor as Tinubu\u2019s ministerial nominee, citing security reports from the State Security Service for the action.<\/p>\n
But El-rufai said the \u201csecurity thing was a good excuse they used. Since then, has anyone released that report telling us the security issue?\u201d<\/p>\n
Similarly, the former governor alleged that the National Security Adviser, NSA, to the president, Nuhu Ribadu was behind a plot to tarnish his reputation.<\/p>\n
According to El-rufai, Ribadu is nursing presidential ambition to succeed President Tinubu in 2031, stressing that the decision of the NSA is to eliminate any potential competition from the North.<\/p>\n
The NSA has since denied the claims.<\/p>\n
However, El-rufai\u2019s outburst didn\u2019t sit well with some loyalists of the president and other concerned Nigerians who took to their social media handles to lambast the former governor.<\/p>\n
All the anger because Tinubu denied him ministerial position \u2013 Deji Adeyanju<\/b><\/p>\n
Popular activist lawyer, Deji Adeyanju claimed that El-rufai\u2019s outburst was birthed by his inability to secure the ministerial appointment.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigerian politicians can only fool idiots, not me. All the noise-making and anger of El-rufai is because Tinubu denied him a ministerial position.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t love Nigeria, it\u2019s about self and nothing else\u201d, he wrote in a post on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n
You were fingered in Southern Kaduna, Zaria Shiite massacre \u2013 Reno Omokri<\/b><\/p>\n
Countering El-rufai\u2019s claims that Tinubu not the National Assembly denied him the ministerial job, a former presidential spokesman, Reno Omokri said the erstwhile governor was fingered in the killing of innocent Kaduna residents.<\/p>\n
He said, Malam Nasir el-Rufai was also fingered as a major contributor to the genocide of Southern Kaduna Christians after he admitted on multiple occasions to paying killer herdsmen while he was Governor.<\/p>\n
\u201cNasir el-Rufai\u2019s government was indicted in the Zaria Shiite massacre of Saturday, December 12, 2015, where 438 Shiite men, women, children and infants were slaughtered in one of Africa\u2019s worst human rights violations.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdditionally, Mr. el-Rufai was specifically cited for demolishing the homes of his political opponents in Kaduna.<\/p>\n
\u201cFinally, his reckless utterances against Christians, whereby on Saturday, January 27, 2013, he insulted Jesus Christ, and on Friday, January 18, 2019, when he said, \u2018Even if I bring the Pope, Christians will never vote for me’\u201d.<\/p>\n
Shehu Sani says El-rufai cannot be trusted<\/b><\/p>\n
On his part, former federal lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani attributed President Tinubu\u2019s decision to lack of trust in the former governor.<\/p>\n
According to Shehu Sani, \u201cno Nigerian President in his right senses will ever closely embrace or trust a man who repeatedly celebrated and gloated about sending President Yar\u2019adua to his grave.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a case of \u2018if you can do this and say this about your own brother what about me?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one will ever admit a man into his house who came with a sword stained with the blood of his brother\u201d, he posted on his X handle.<\/p>\n
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