Just 24 days to the presidential election , Governor of Kaduna state , Mallam Nasir El Rufai has said some people in the villa are working against the APC Presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
Speaking on Wednesday on a Channels TV program, Sunrise Daily, Governor Nasir El-Rufai revealed that certain individuals whose favoured candidate lost out in the APC presidential convention where Senator Tinubu emerged are in league to supplant the APC presidential candidate in February 25 presidential election.
The governor said: ”I believe there are elements in the Villa that want us to lose the election because they didn’t get their way; they had their candidate. Their candidate did not win the primaries.
“They are trying to get us to lose the election, and they are hiding behind the president’s desire to do what he thinks is right.
” I will give two examples: this petroleum subsidy, which is costing the country trillions of Naira, was something that we all agreed would be removed.
In fact, I had a discussion with the president and showed him why it had to go. Because how can you have a capital budget of N200b for federal roads and then spend N2 Trillion on petroleum subsidy? This was a conversation I had with the president in 2021 when the subsidy thing started rising. He was convinced. We left. It changed. Everyone in the government agreed, and it changed”
“The second example I will give is this currency redesign. You have to understand the president. People are blaming the Governor of the Central Bank for the currency redesign, but No. You have to go back and look at the first outing of Buhari as president. He did this; the Buhari, Idiagbon regime changed our currency and did it in secrecy with a view to catching those that are stashing away illicit funds. It is a very good intention. The president has his right. But doing it at this time within the allotted time does not make any political or economic sense.”
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu also raised an alarm just last week saying that the Naira redesign and fuel scarcity were part of an orchestrated plot to undermine him in the forthcoming general elections.
He also lambasted the Buhari government at a rally yesterday when he said the government took the dollar rate from 200 to 800.
