Nigeria Transferring Backwards Below Tinubu-led APC Authorities, Says Ex-Kaduna Governor El-Rufai

El-Rufai added that Nigeria is worse off by way of insecurity, economic system and governance than it was below earlier administrations.

Aformer governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has claimed that Nigeria will not be progressing below the present authorities of President Bola Tinubu.

El-Rufai, who not too long ago dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Social Democratic Party (SDP), accused President Tinubu’s administration of incompetence, nepotism and betrayal of the founding beliefs of APC.

He talked about this throughout an interview with Deutsche Welle Hausa in Katsina. El-Rufai was in Katsina on Monday, however the video of the interview was launched Tuesday.

El-Rufai added that Nigeria is worse off by way of insecurity, economic system and governance than it was below earlier administrations.

He alleged that the Tinubu-led administration was essentially the most illiberal because the return to democracy in 1999.

He additionally accused Tinubu’s administration of being insensitive to the plight of bizarre Nigerians.

He stated, “Ever because the assumption of workplace of Tinubu as Nigeria’s president, the nation has begun to go backwards. Insecurity has elevated, the economic system is dwindling, prosperous folks at the moment are poor, and ethnic profiling is on the rise.

“Whoever he’s giving an appointment to have to be somebody he is aware of or from his tribe. They’ll dismiss that, however Nigerians are usually not silly. There isn’t a manner your title is that this, and they’ll say no, you’re from Katsina,” he acknowledged.

“This sort of injustice, ethnic profiling, and theft that we’re seeing will not be what APC was constructed on. What we deliberate after we began constructing APC was a platform for justice, fairness, competence, and nationwide integration. However right this moment, we see nothing however sheer injustice, nepotism, and disrespect for these beliefs,” El-Rufai stated.

He defined that these had been the explanations behind his choice to hitch the SDP which he described as a celebration that may “rescue the lots from injustice.”

“So, whoever his occasion cheated or did one thing he felt was not proper, the one occasion he sees is the SDP. So, don’t be stunned by the sort of folks you see on this room and others that aren’t right here — we’re working collectively in broad daylight and midnight doing what we should always do to strategise with a purpose to salvage our folks from what this authorities has put us via,” he acknowledged.

Responding to considerations that his journey with the SDP may find yourself like his earlier alliance with the APC, El-Rufai insisted that it was the APC that strayed from its founding beliefs, not him.

“I didn’t go away APC; it’s the occasion that left me. Since Bola Tinubu turned president, the nation has began to go backwards. We informed them what they’re doing will not be good, and they’re at all times behaving like no one can inform them something.

“Even after they deny the allegation of nepotism, persons are not blind or silly. After they see the names, they know the place they arrive from,” he stated.

El-Rufai recalled assembly with APC leaders like Bisi Akande, Adams Oshiomhole and Abdullahi Adamu to inform them that the occasion had deviated from its founding imaginative and prescient.