LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has declared that he no longer believes in the quality of leadership around President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Governor spoke about the people and forces he characterized as elements whose patterns and conducts are consistent with plans to subvert a civilian-to-civilian transition after the next presidential election.
His comments elicited knocks from the Middle Belt Forum, MBF; the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Presidential Candidate, Mr. Dumebi Kachikwu; and a top leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
El-Rufai, who has been outspoken, especially regarding the naira redesign policy of the CBN, told Premium Times that he no longer believes in the quality of leadership around President Buhari.
“It turned out that some of the wildest stories of conspiracy to derail the transition at best for APC to lose, preferably for the whole system to result in no election leading to an interim arrangement began to rear their heads.”
Premium Times shared a snippet of the interview on its Twitter handle on Sunday.
“I believe in Buhari, I still do and I will never stop, but I no longer believe in the circle around him and the quality of decisions and actions coming out of that leadership,” El-Rufai said.
Both the Presidency and All Progressives Congress, APC, kept mum, as efforts to get their reaction proved abortive.