Former Kaduna State governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai has expressed his readiness to woo former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi and Rotimi Amaechi to hitch the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to type a vibrant opposition to the All Progressives Congress (APC) forward of the 2027 common elections.
In an interview with the Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Service (BBC) yesterday monitored by LEADERSHIP Sunday in Bauchi, El-Rufai stated, “My largest want and prayer is to see Atiku, Obi, Amaechi, and Aregbesola be a part of SDP, in order that we are able to type a strong coalition of opposition leaders not essentially to merge into one political occasion.”
El-Rufai, one of many founding fathers of APC, dumped the occasion for SDP final week after falling out with President Bola Tinubu’s authorities.
He was one of many arrowheads that firmly stood for Tinubu to emerge as APC presidential candidate within the 2023 elections. However barely two years later, the previous Kaduna State governor left Tinubu over his exclusion from the present cupboard.
He overtly criticised Tinubu’s insurance policies for inflicting hardship on Nigerians.
Atiku and Obi are heavyweight opposition leaders who individually contested and misplaced the 2023 presidential election below the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party (LP) respectively to Tinubu.
El-Rufai stated, “SDP is a vibrant platform. Allow us to come collectively so we are able to problem the APC.”
He stated though Tinubu deceived him, he nonetheless didn’t remorse supporting him to change into the president in 2023.
He denied defecting to SDP to contest for the presidency in 2027 however conceded that if members of the occasion ask him to vie for the workplace, he would possibly contemplate it.
“I don’t know. I’m not the one who will say I’m going to contest. It’s a celebration and members of that occasion will name you and let you know to contest for this or that place.
“Even after I contested for governor, the individuals from Kaduna went to former President Muhammadu Buhari and pleaded with him to ask me to contest and I didn’t even wish to contest as a result of I don’t know easy methods to do it and I used to be afraid to,” El-Rufai stated.
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