A prominent chieftain of the leading Yoruba socio-political group known as Afenifere, Chief Sola Ebiseni, has come out to discuss the Kaduna Governor’s outbursts amid the ongoing public outrage that has greeted the recent statements made by Mallam Nasir El-Rufai during live television interviews regarding the upcoming presidential elections in Nigeria.
Remember that El-Rufai, a crucial member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, claimed in an interview on Television Continental (TVC) a few days ago that one local government in Kaduna was more than enough to obliterate the votes of the entire southeastern region. He was disputing claims that the Christian populations in the north had the necessary numbers to pull swing votes for Peter Obi of the Labour Party.
The Southwest Coordinator for the Labour Party, Ebiseni, responded to El-remarks Rufai’s during a Friday interview on ARISE TV’s “The Morning Show with Rufai Oseni and Reuben Abati,” arguing that the Kaduna State Governor was not only making provocative statements against certain parts of the country, but he was also seriously jeopardizing the candidacy of the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed.
The Afenifere chieftain went on to say that if there is anyone in the APC working against Tinubu, it should be the governor of Kaduna State.
“I believe El-Rufai is a man to watch in the current political actions that are taking place,” he declared. when a governor appears on television and disparages a whole religion as being unimportant across the entirety of northern Nigeria. Then, after taking in the entire Southeast, he declared that it was not possible to win with 10% of the votes cast in a specific local government of a northern state.
After that, he calls up his presidential candidate and claims that he is being bullied and that the same administration is trying to stop him. I’m taken aback that El-Rufai and his supporters do not view El-Rufai as a fifth columnist or an agent provocateur who is provoking opposition to his presidential candidate. Additionally, his supporters do not view him as a particularly dangerous figure inside their group.
