Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai had thrown darts at President Muhammadu Buhari, alleging that certain individuals are working to ensure the party’s defeat in the forthcoming election because the presidential candidate is not the president’s ‘anointed.
According to the governor, those who announced Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, as the anointed presidential candidate of Buhari in May 2022 are hell-bent on ensuring that Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate loses the February presidential election.
Tinubu has also spoken against what he called attempts by the government to sabotage his chances at being president.
Speaking two weeks ago in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Tinubu said the naira redesign policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria was an attempt aimed at turning the people against the APC.
He also blamed the government for the ensuing fuel scarcity boasting that these issues would not stop him from winning still.
In an interview on Channels Television on Wednesday, El-Rufai worked hard to distance the party and the candidate from the policies alleging that certain elements within the APCworking against Tinubu.
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When asked about the challenges in the party with the election weeks away and if he believed APC is in crisis, he said, “I believe there is. I believe that there are elements in the villa that want us to lose the elections because they didn’t get their way.
“They had their candidate, their candidate didn’t win the primaries, and I think they are still trying to get us to lose the elections and they are hiding behind the President’s desire to do what he thinks is right.”
Speaking further he said, “Look, the people of Nigeria should understand that these are not the policies of the APC. They are not the policies of our candidate. They are the policies of the fifth columnist that want to bring us down, they want to bring this country down,” El-Rufai stated.
