BREAKING: Tinubu Finally Reacts To El-Rufai’s Defection From APC

President Bola Tinubu has finally reacted to the defection of former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai from the rulling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Tinubu said Nasir El-Rufai left the APC for personal ambition.

In an interview with TVC on Wednesday, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, who spoke on behalf of Tinubu said the former Governor of Kaduna State chose the Social Democratic Party (SDP) over the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because he wanted a place where he could exert control.

The presidential spokesman recalled that El-Rufai had said he would not leave the ruling party.

He said, unlike PDP, SDP has no structure and the party’s Chairman, Shehu Gabam, is El-Rufai’s friend whom he could dictate for.

His words: “The reason El-Rufai didn’t go to PDP is because the structure there, he can’t go and dictate things for them. But he told the world that SDP, the chairman, is his friend. So they went there because they want to go and dictate.

“Let me ask you, with the greatest respect, don’t you have records of El-Rufai saying, I will never leave APC till I die? Don’t you have records where he said, there is no political party other than APC?  I’m not holding it against him. Because it’s possible he may have said that around the time because of his feeling. The only thing I said, which you gave in your monologue, is that your constitutional right of association is guaranteed. I don’t have anything against that. But your motive must be interrogated.”