Gov Sani defending Tinubu for N150bn selective reimbursements, interventions, grants – El-Rufai
Former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said that his successor, Governor Uba Sani, sycophantically defends President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Both members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sani and El-Rufai have been at loggerheads since the former took over governance in Kaduna from the latter.
El-Rufai, blocked by the Senate in 2023 from becoming minister for security reasons, has recently become a vocal critic of the APC and Tinubu’s administration. According to him, the party encourages poor leadership.
In an interview on Monday on TVC, Sani addressed his feud with El-Rufai, saying his predecessor’s criticism against Tinubu was for selfish reasons. He also challenged politicians who were confident of defeating Tinubu in 2027 to get prepared.
“Most of these politicians that came out and say they are coming as coalition, they are politicians that were in government only less than two years ago,” Sani said.
“What did they do when they were in government? They were only fighting for power, not because they could do anything better.”
“Of course, I also want to make it clear here that if you ask me, when a democratic dispensation, and we have virtually just two and a half years to the next election, and any politician who feels he is popular or he can defeat Bola Ahmed Tinubu or APC —I think they need to go and work very hard and present themselves in the next election, which will be 2027,” he added.
Replying in a Tuesday morning post on X, El-Rufai said: “Every day I see this governor embarrassingly and sycophantically rambling, I used to wonder why? However, confirming that Federal Government ‘reimbursements, interventions and grants’ in excess of N150bn have been given selectively to Kaduna by Tinubu, in the last 18 months, now explains everything.
“By all means, defend Asiwaju for the conditional cash transfer. Asiwaju has earned it, coming from you. The people of Kaduna State will judge at the right time and place.”
In another post, El-Rufai quoted former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as saying sometime ago: “And in a developing nation, where people struggle to put food on the table, go to school, get rudimentary healthcare, eke out an existence not a career, (social services) delivery can be the difference between life and death; or at least the difference between a life with hope and one without it.
“They (citizens) want the problems impacting their lives solved or at least mitigated. They want a higher standard of living, a better quality of life, improved healthcare and education, security.”
