Governor of Kaduna state, Malami Nasir El-Rufai has yet again raised the alarm that the Cabals in President Muhammadu Buhari’s government are planning to install interim government at the expiration of Buhari’s administration.
President Muhammadu Buhari, El-Rufai noted would always back Bola Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate, and other party candidates.
El-Rufai said even though the governor characterised the President as a devoted party member, he asserted that the same could not be said of a significant group of Buhari supporters who are now determined to obstruct the election of the APC nominee.
According to him, it’s because their preferred candidates, Godwin Emefiele (the governor of the central bank) and Ahmed Lawan (the president of the Senate), did not receive the party’s presidential nomination.
Additionally, he said that the clique was attempting to overthrow or thwart a civilian-to-civilian transition by working towards the establishment of an interim national government after Buhari’s departure.
El-Rufai spoke on this issue in his latest interview with an online-based newspaper, Premium Times.
“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 rare their heads,” El-Rufai told PREMIUM TIMES.
When asked about the mixed signal perceived from the president’s lukewarm attitude to Mr Tinubu’s campaigns, he insisted there were no mixed signals.
“President Buhari considers the APC like a child he conceived and held in pregnancy for 18 months and gave birth to.
He will never, I am ready to stake my neck and my life, President Buhari will never work against the APC.
He will never work against the candidate of the APC even if the candidate is the devil himself,” El-Rufai said.
He added Buhari is “a party man and an establishment person whose support for Mr Tinubu is sure.”
He went further to paint a picture and illustrate the operational mode of some disgruntled power-hungry clique within the party that he admitted was hurting the party.
“What is happening is that there are people around the President that had their presidential candidates.
“They had two candidates that they preferred to succeed Buhari – Godwin Emefiele from the South and Ahmad Lawan from the North – and they got neither.”
