A former governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, has reacted to a BBC interview by the Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai in which he said that there are no elders left in northern Nigeria.
Bafarawa said the comment was an insult to the North and it is unpleasant for El-Rufai to categorise all as bad eggs.
El-Rufai in his BBC interview claimed there were plans by people in the presidential villa to sabotage the candidacy of the All Progressive Congress(APC) flag bearer, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
“He was insisting that Tinubu must win the election, whether people like it or not, they have already won. Who told him that the whole of the North is supporting the APC?
“This is just his opinion, in that case, he has no right to insist on the North because everybody has his candidate.
“The way he is campaigning for Tinubu that is how we are campaigning for our candidate,” Bafarawa said.
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Bafarawa insisted that an individual does not have the power to impose his candidate on other people, saying, “we will shock them, we will make them understand that this country belongs to nobody, likewise the North.”
Responding to El-Rufai’s comment on the lack of elders in the north, Bafarawa said, “His comments lack being responsible and respectful, What is expected of him are comments that can lead to the development of the North and the development of the country at large.
“El-Rufai talked about contesting for elections and winning, if this is what he referred to as being responsible, we have contested and won before him.”
