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Isn't it obvious that they got marching orders to do so? The rapid interviews by Matawale, Tuggar, Uba Sani, Bwala, et al following Elrufai's comments were not coincidental. But are their messages really resonating with the North? I don't think so.

The Presidency should have a feel of what to expect in 2027 using the tax bill as an example. Did any of these northern politicians come out to speak in support of it? Even Barau Jibrin had to backtrack when he saw the backlash that followed his attempt at doing so. Elrufai would have been at the forefront speaking in support of it and helping to allay fears.

Tinubu will struggle to find respectable vocal politicians of Northern extraction that can sell his presidency in 2027, and for good reason. Not with the shameful treatment of his most vocal Northern supporter in 2023, Elrufai. It will turn out to become his single most strategic mistake.

It simply mirrors what obtains at the top. Grand scale nepotism and personal interest. What was the value of Oando before 2023 and what is it now? What about the award process and amount for the Lagos-Calabar Road? And to whom was it awarded?

Remember he built Lagos. It will be time for the son to paint it in 2027.

casualobserver:
Go fork yourself. I have told you we do not care. Unlike you we are not desperate for power. We ain’t begging you and we ain’t begging the SE.

We will not be threatened by anyone. You see power means a lot to you because that’s all you have, no factories, no development, no schools, no nothing. Power means a lot to the SE because they’ve never had it. We do not care because we are ok with or without power and we have had it many times! We have also been out of power and oppressed and thrived!

So again carry your votes and vote as you like we do not care and we will not be threatened.

Whatever happens power or no power, our region will always be ok. None of you can say that.

You are obsessed with power because you have nothing else and when you have the power what do you do with it? Impoverish your people even more! You do t create jobs only out of school children and terrorists!

Again go fork yourself and let this be the last time you think you can threaten or blackmail a yoruba man with withdrawing votes. Please withdraw them all, if you do t you are a bastard!

Nonsense

Whewww! Someone is triggered. You don't care and yet here you are hyperventilating on my mentions after telling me goodnight severally. This is the politics section. If you really do not care, then why are you here? Are you also one of those Southwesterners who is from Lagos? All Southwesterners are from Lagos these days, which is ironically where all our Nigerian ports are situated. Oh, and by the way, Baba Sope lost Lagos to Obi and lost Osun (even Iragbiji) to Atiku. I guess they know him better than the rest of Nigerians.

"Vote for who you know. Do not vote for who you do not know" - Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. In hindsight, I wish we had listened. Goodnight and I mean it.

casualobserver:
You are already in the mud forking asssshole. You think you can threaten us with votes? Na today we Dey lose election?

I repeat you will not die well if you don’t carry your relatives and village people and get all of them to vote against Tinubu.

Eeeediot! Who do you think you are threatening? You think we are scared? Which number you get? This is not the era of writing results o. This is the era of BVAS! I hope you know all your ghost numbers have gone down. Even Borno could not register 1m votes.


Do your worst, 2027 you will understand real politics. And if Tinubu loses he comes back home.

Nonsense and ingredients!


Kilode! Who disturbed you when you were there for 8 years, this power is not your birthright and you will learn in 2027.

Good night!


Eeediot!

The most educated son of the Southwest has spoken. A proper omoluabi indeed. Keep your hats on! Below is how the regions voted in 2023 by the way. My final advise to you will be to go reconcile with the Southeast and Southsouth. Oh wait, you can't right? You still need the uneducated North, don't you? I wonder why. Lol.

casualobserver:
It is not a question of chickening out. I recognize an eediot when I interact with one. What is my business with Obasa?

GO fork yourself and like I said call your relatives friends and townsmen and vote against tinubu. Worst case scenario he loses and comes back home.

Arrogant entitled ignorant uneducated eeediot! Note I did not say eeeediots, I said eeediot because others are not responsible for the rankings of 1 eeediot!

Na una get Nigeria? Look at this foool. Election will come everybody will vote, whoever wins will enter Aso rock, whoever loses will go to his house.

Lol. Are you back to quoting me? I thought you've had enough. I can see the level of your "education" on display. No one threatens anyone in a democracy. It's simply a game of numbers and concessions. Then add a little bit of honesty and sincerity, and whoever losses election fairly will go home. I won't play in the mud with you. Now run along!

casualobserver:
Oga I am done with you. I didn’t bother reading past the 1st 2 lines. I stopped after you lots. First of all the proper grammar is “you lot” which in itself indicates you are not properly educated. Maybe if your past leaders hadn’t embezzled your education budget you would have a better grasp of English.

Please actively campaign for Atiku or ElRufai or obi or whoever you want. Worst case scenario he loses, he comes back home, heaven will not fall.

Like I said call all your friends relatives and townsmen, Vote for whom you like and let us have peace, this power is not for you alone, you don’t own Nigeria.

Good night!

Nonsense!

As expected. I knew you would chicken out. You do not have the range to teach me grammar. I could swear that I am more educated than you. Don't ever be found in the kitchen again. It's clear that you do not have it in you to stand the heat. I could have called you a coward but that would be a disservice to proper cowards.

casualobserver:
My friend did Tinubu not nominate him to be power minister? Who sabotage his nomination?

Let me explain something to you, look through my posts, I have never ever abused Buhari. I have said he was never a good manage r of the economy because I was alive when he was head of state. I have defended his infrastructure legacies despite his failings in other departments. Ubaru is a man I will always have a lot of time for because he is the last of a dying breed of politicians who have that old school value system. But he is not a good economist or manager of the economy, he wasn’t in 1984 and he wasn’t 2015-23. i I have also said Tinubu would not be president without the North, I have also acknowledged ElRufais role. But that does not mean ElRufai should seek to bring down the house he built. This is politics sometimes you lose out.

Oga, I am an individual, I am not accountable to the views or opinions of others, just like you are not responsible for all the utterances or actions of your fellow Northerners. So please try to situate this based on what I say not what others say.

Please don’t bring Osinbajo into this. Even Buhari was shocked he tried to contest. I don’t expect that kind of comment from a Northerner. In any event did he not contest? Sometimes technocrats get thrust into power and start to think they are politicians or they know politics. Tinubu never asked for Buhari’s endorsement. All he wanted was a level playing field because he knew he would win if he got a level playing field. Buhari delivered an open playing field whether or not Tinubu was his choice is immaterial.

Finally ElRufai is not a career politician, he got into politics by accident. Tinubu has been in politics since 1992.

Forget all that talk about "who sabotaged his nomination". You are not talking to kids or people with single-digit IQs. It's the same way you lots claim that Tinubu was not aware of Obasa's removal. Same you who started this discussion by saying "Elrufai did not support Tinubu. He supported Amaechi. He did it for himself", etc. You must really think Northerners are naïve. Tinubu begged Elrufai live on stage in Kaduna to work with him. Even after winning, he continued to send emissaries to persuade Elrufai to work in his government only to carry out a clandestine coup against him. Look, Northerners believe in the concept of "Amana (Trust)". It was the only reason why they supported Tinubu in 2023. An average Northerner expects you to keep your word because word is bond, whether written or unwritten.

Can you explain why the likes of Shehu Sani and political adversaries of Elrufai are now stakeholders and spokespersons for the Tinubu government? You will realise the political insignificance of this new found allies of Tinubu in 2027.

Mattawale, Keyamo and even Bosun had petitions against their nomination. Why then did the President intervene to clear them. Tinubu started politics in 1992 and Elrufai was Minister of the FCT 22 years ago. Its simply a function of age. What other career do you know Elrufai for asides politics?

casualobserver:
Oga no need for abuse. As an educated person you can make your point if you have any without throwing insults. If we go down the path f raining insults,I am sure you will see from my post history I am quite capable. You are free to vote for whoever you like nobody is begging you, the chips will fal where they will. I already acknowledged that without ElRufai, Tinubu would not have secured the nomination but he didn’t do it for Tinubu. His delegates voted for Amaechi and he did not deliver his state for Tinubu. I acknowledge his role in the currency saga but ElRufai does what is good for ElRufai. Even his son Bello said in the interview with Seun that his father and Tinubu have never seen eye to eye.

Oga all this one of threatening to vote for Atiku please feel free and call all your relative and friends and villagers to vote for Atiku….we don’t care how you vote o, we can’t be threatened. The days are gone when you can threaten us in the south. That does not mean we don’t acknowledge the role the North played in Tinubu’s victory but don’t start get arrogant. This is not a master slave relationship and we can’t be threatened! If Tinubu loses he loses, heaven will not fall but abeg, this attitude of yours you are displaying that the North owns Nigeria bury it!….fast If Tinubu loses so be it, it’s your loss, what have you achieved with all your years in power?

I repeat without ElRufai Tinubu wouldn’t have been president but he wasn’t doing it for Tinubu. It wasn’t entirely altruistic. I also repeat it was his fellow Northerners that sabotaged his ministerial nomination. If ElRufai has a problem it is with his fellow Northerners. Tinubu was shut out of power for 8 years by the same people he helped with his own resources to the presidency, did you see him disparaging the government or forming opposition alliance? Instead he came back to be Buhari’s campaign co-chairman for his second term.

Like I said, if you want to vote for Atiku, feel free but don’t come here talking with a sense of arrogance or entitlement threatening anybody. Whatever happens to Nigeria we will always be the most viable region in the country. It is you that needs good leaders more than anyone.

What arrogant nonsense!

Elrufai is a career politician and whether he did it for himself or for whoever is besides the point. When Tinubu supported Buhari in 2015, wasn't he doing it for himself, hence his Emilokan speech? Nevertheless, Northerners recognised the role he played and rallied round him. If Elrufai worked hard for his party candidate with a view to contesting the presidency in 2031, is that a bad thing? Was it justified for Tinubu to try to take him out of the power equation to grant other Northerners (his stooges) an advantage over him? Buhari allowed all aspirants to vie for the seat in 2023 (a move that still makes Tinubu supporters call him a betrayer for not anointing Tinubu). Osibanjo is now a persona non grata just for vieing for the seat with his "master". Where then is the internal democracy? It is a mistake to assume that Tinubu can unanimously annoint a leader for the North in 2031, even if he were to win in 2027. The North chooses its own leaders.

There is no threat anywhere in a democracy, we are just setting the record straight beforehand so no-one can attempt to rewrite history. This is history in the making. Tinubu messed up with his treacherous treatment of Elrufai and posterity will be the judge. Saying Tinubu was sidelined in Buhari's government is another attempt to rewrite history. Same person named as National Leader of the APC with several ministerial and heads of agency nominees including the Vice President and Speaker? Any other concessions and he might as well have been Co-President with Buhari. How was he sidelined?

Gotocourt:
With this Kaduna votes, Atiku garnered 554,360 to beat the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, who got 399,293 to come second while Labour Party’s Peter Obi polled 294,494 to claim third position.
You sef, check am na

That number only shows you how hard the likes of Elrufai worked to deliver Tinubu. Never forget that Atiku is a Northerner and it was a three-horse race. As small as you think that number was, it's still higher than Tinubu's total in Ekiti and even his total in Osun (which he lost to Atiku by the way). It is still higher than his total in Ogun and his total in Oyo. And Kaduna is just one Northern state. Tinubu cannot pull that number again in 2027 with the disgraceful treatment of the man who worked so hard to sell his candidacy to Northerners. To understand what a merger with Obi would like, add Atiku's 2023 numbers to some of Tinubu's and also most of Obi's.

Tinubu failed to consolidate on his victory. So much for being a "master strategist". Even without a merger with Obi, Atiku is set to do much more better in 2027 because a lot of Northerners who voted Tinubu because of Elrufai will now handover their votes to their son, Atiku. Don't forget Atiku won all northestern states except Borno that he lost with a slight margin. Tinubu got the highest of his votes from the Northwest where Elrufai is from. Don't think Northeasterners will now vote Tinubu in 2027. They won't.

casualobserver:
I held this view and I agree 100% but over the last few days things have come to light and so i need to qualify my "agreement". It turns out ElRufai was scheming to be vice president under Amaechi. So the whole supporting Tinubu was a calculated move that backfired on him. It just so happenned that it benefitted Tinubu and without Elrufai making that move Tinubu was toast but it wasnt because he supported Tinubu. it turns out 1) ElRufai directed his delegates to vote for Amaechi at the primaries and 2) he delivered Kaduna at the state level but not at the presidential level. APC only got 29% in Kaduna as opposed to 48% in the gubernatorial. Did I say Kaduna delegates voted for Amaechi?

So while it is true that ElRufai was instrumental in Tinubu becoming president, he did it for himself not Tinubu, he had to pave the way for a southern president for him to become VP.

Finally, I hope people know that it is his fellow Northerners that blocked his ministerial nomination including his own state. Uba Sani has been in the trenches with Tinubu since the nadeco days.

ElRufai is a very intelligent man and a trouble maker but, I dont think he has what it takes to pull of a political coup against Tinubu. he rubs people the wrong way. and even amongst northern politicians there are those who dont like his style.

I nonetheless respect his intellect and I have said it before, his presence with the opposition is the only thing that can keep Tinubu up at night. The others together dont have what it takes. He will cause trouble but I am not sure he can pull it off. He will likely run his partners up the wrong way in the process with his scheming.

The only person that could have engineered a defeat for Tinubu in 2027 is Babangida and he is old and retired.

Life cycle of a typical Yoruba Batist. Betrayal, dishonesty and ficklemindedness is simply politics to them. It was Elrufai that made me and mine vote Tinubu against a Northern Atiku in 2023. I never trusted him and I have been proven right.

Mind you, Atiku has not lost a single vote of his margin in 2023, he is set to add to his numbers from remorseful Nigerians (especially Northerners) who voted against him in 2023 thinking they were being fair and just. Clearly, you Southwesterners think it was done out of stupidity with how the treacherous treatment of Elrufai has unravelled before our very eyes. Just to remind you that the North gave Tinubu 6 million out of his total 8 million votes. The impact Elrufai had in that cannot be overemphasised. My advise for Tinubu will be to find a sizable chunk of that number elsewhere in 2027 as he's never getting close to that number again.

Jostoman:
My question is who is afraid of Atiku ahead of 2027?

Once they discover that Obi want to contest they will Change it to IPOB and ESN topic. I fear who no fear APC government.

You hit the nail in the head. Gradually, you will start seeing news about fulani herdsmen coming back into the tabloids and mainstream media. Where were these fulani herdsmen before now? Someone is scared of Atiku. Nigerians can't be fooled again. We now know their modus operandi.

SalamRushdie:
No human being can convince me SanwoOlu went against Obasa without the explicit approval of Jagaban, it can never happen

Forget these people and their planted stories. Why does Tinubu always like to use plausible deniability when orchestrating clandestine moves against his erstwhile loyalist. Him feigning not to be aware of Obasa's removal is just a way to continue to enjoy Obasa's support after carrying out a coup against him. I hope Obasa is smart enough not to be fooled by this. He just got schemed out of the governorship race. Who stands to benefit off this?

Every smart political analyst knows that Tinubu's prolonged stay in Lagos during the yuletide and his visit to the Oba of lagos were all in the bid to perfect Obasa's removal. So why the pretense?

madridguy:
Mallam El Rufai should calm down for now.

No, he shouldn't. The APC did not give him any room to wriggle. His back is up against the wall. When you corner a rat, it shall fight back. You denied him the ministerial position in an embarrassing manner. He went quietly to lick his wounds but you continue to fight him and his appointees using his own state governor that he brought into power. All his political adversaries like Shehu Sani and Co, some of whom he incurred on Tinubu's behalf are now stakeholders and spokespersons for the party. You even begin to savage his reputation by fictitiously accusing him of corruption even with no evidence. Which influential APC member spoke up in his favour? None.

Elrufai deserved more respect from a party that he co-founded. If you do not appreciate him, he will take his business elsewhere, but Elrufai will never go out quietly. True northerners want him to fight back and redeem his self esteem.

Elrufai is a very dependable ally but a very formidable foe. He has nothing to lose. The choice is yours.

Gotocourt:
He has to solidify his power too. It's just like how Gov Ambode was dealth with 🤷 . Keep godfathers aside

The difference is that Elrufai never interfered in Uba Sani's government and Uba Sani started to fight with him right from day one by working against his confirmation. Our only disappointment is that Tinubu took the side of Uba Sani despite everything Elrufai did for him. Uba Sani is lightweight, politically.

Tinubu will soon find out that Elrufai is a dependable ally but a very formidable foe. Bear in mind that the opposition APC is currently facing are between people whom all voted for Tinubu in 2023. Atiku and Obi have not even joined the conversation yet.

simpleseyi:
Wasn’t it Atikulation Abubakar that brought Hell Rufai to Obasanjo’s government, hie come Hell Rufai stabbed Atikulation and led Obasanjo’s camp to destroy Atikulation?

The lie that Elrufai betrayed Atiku must be put to rest. First of all, Atiku never brought Elrufai to limelight. Elrufai was already an accomplished proffessional and co-founder of one of the foremost quantity surveying firms (Google "Elrufai & Partners" and checkout their portfolios) in Nigeria even before 1999. Obasanjo brought him to head the BPE after he drafted a privatisation pathway for the country as part of the Transition Committee of the Abdulsalam military to democracy regime. BPE then just happened to be under the Vice President as Head of the economic Council and he never betrayed Atiku. Elrufai has always been wealthy and a cerebral collusus. Please read his interview granted to Princeton University as far back as 2009.
https://successfulsocieties.princeton.edu/interviews/nasir-el-rufai

Below is Bola Ahmed Tinubu's Princeton interview granted in same 2009. This means that although Tinubu might be older in age and politics, Elrufai has always been up there, locally and internationally as far as policies and governance in Nigeria go. You may not like it but Elrufai is not a pushover and he is not Tinubu's boy.

https://successfulsocieties.princeton.edu/interviews/bola-tinubu

Uba Sani cannot win a free and fair election in the Kaduna of today. During the local government Council elections some few months ago, he got booed by voters at his own polling unit, making him to quickly scamper away and his security details shot and killed a young boy while trying to get away. All results were declared in favour of the APC even with elections not holding anywhere in the State.

Don't forget that Elrufai was the first governor to introduce Electronic voting at local government level in Nigeria. When Uba Sani came in, he repealed the law reverting to manual voting. The whole Kaduna, including the much touted "Southern Kaduna" were ready to vote against his party, the APC.

Here is the video of Uba Sani at his polling unit. These are the same people the President is relying upon to deliver the North for him, while doing away with formidable collusus like Elrufai.

Yar PR kawai. This was Uba Sani being booed when he arrived to cast vote. The security couldn't intimidate the crowd 👍 https://t.co/U3BHahSK0V pic.twitter.com/OiIukXPm8o

— Gagocious ⚽🥉🐎 (@Osman__Naseer) October 20, 2024

Svoboda:
Even tinubu himself is treading carefully and is not acting arrogantly. I also understand the pulse. No core northern gov will campaign with tinubus portrait in 2027. The consensus is sacrosanct.

This is the fact. Anyone telling you otherwise is not being sincere. Elrufai has now become their enemy. I check online and the majority of people insulting Elrufai are Southwesterners. You will not find a single northern APC supporter insulting Elrufai. That should tell you something. The grievance is very deep but hidden for now.

Acekidc4:
Ameachi was my guy before oooo, but his bitterness towards Tinubu as of late is reducing my likeness for him. Expel him if you want to. Your party is in power but you are behaving like an opposition.

APC was formed with 3 blocs, ACN, CPC and New PDP? Ask yourself, where are the CPC and New PDP blocs today. All schemed out and tactically being chased out of the party. Can the Yorubas do it alone? You are now depending on Kwankwaso to decamp to APC
so you can betray him and then ask him to be loyal? Laughable. Anyway, time shall tell.

Putindbutt:
I don't think who you campaigned or voted for. You guys are bunch of suckers. When Tinubu himself and his faction were sidelined by Buhari's Administration, Tinubu still deployed all his asernals to work for Buhari's reelection, despite his humiliation in the party coupled with the economic and security mess Buhari created. Party's loyalty over some stupid interests. You fighting to scatter everywhere today because you feel left out forgetting that loyalty would open a better door for you tomorrow, y'all are too shallow. The politics of the North is getting even more interesting day after day. APC is welcoming more decampees from other parties than they're leaving. The huge moment is when Kwankwaso himself will walk on the red carpet into APC, you will shiit for body dat day. dey online dey open mouth ignorantly, Tinubu will teach you politics. Remember, you're dealing with Tinubu not GEJ.

Loyalty or you mean subservience? Northerners cannot bend the knee for Tinubu the way you Southwesterners behave. Tinubu sidelined from Buhari's government? Are you trying to rewrite history? Same national leader of the APC with several of his nominees as ministers and heads of agencies, not forgetting as Vice President and Speaker? He also wanted the Senate Presidency for the ACN until he was schemed out by Saraki (New PDP bloc).

APC was formed with 3 blocs, ACN, CPC and New PDP? Ask yourself, where are the CPC and New PDP blocs today. All schemed out and tactically being chased out of the party. You are now depending on Kwankwaso,
so you can betray him again? Laughable. Anyway, time shall tell.

Svoboda:
It is this kind of blatant arrogance that has pushed people away from tinubu, and not necessarily because of his economic policies. The blatant arrogance of his tribesmen supporters. This was the same with jonathan.

Even from a neutral point of view, you would be naive to expect the govs to have declared otherwise when all but one are members of the presidents ruling party? It is only when they all start campaigning with the presidents picture in 2027 that you will then know that the president is on a sure footing in the north.

Please leave them alone. The arrogance is nauseating. They can never understand the political pulse of the North unless they are physically present. This is because you will never find many northerners making noise on social media. You have to be onground to understand. A lot of the northern APC Governors are not resting easy. Some might need to decamp heading into 2027 to retain their seats or they will only win by the whiskers, if at all they do.

Putindbutt:
Hello? Who are you?, Governor Sani Uba or NW Governors's spokesman?, all these online small frys sef. As we speak today, Elrufai cannot influence anything in Kaduna, if he brought a candidate, he will lose the election. Southern Kaduna are all smiling now compared to the hellish they went through during his time. Who could have thought that lawmakers from Southern Kaduna would decamp to APC in less than two years. Elrufai messed up, he has low emotional IQ. When Oshiomhole was disgraced out of office as APC Chairman under Buhari, he didn't come out throw the President or his party under the bus, he remained silent and continued working for the party which has rewarded him today. Guy, you guys should always remember that you're dealing with Tinubu not GEJ.

Why are you triggered? I campaigned and voted for Tinubu in 2023. You sit in your enclave in Osun and analyse Northern politics through your limited perspective. All that talk of "you're dealing with Tinubu not GEJ" is always very hilarious. Are you insinuating he will rig the election or he won't vacate the seat if he losses? Every single campaign point I used in convincing my kith and kins to vote Tinubu in 2023 has been demystified. I am not the only previous Tinubu supporter who holds this view. There are millions like me.

It is a strategic mistake to think that Tinubu is actively winning Christian votes or Southern Kaduna votes. Is he going to ditch the Muslim-Muslim ticket? If not, are all Christians satisfied with his performance thus far? Southern Kaduna voted Obi in 2027. Previously, they have historically voted PDP. Bold of you to assume that Tinubu now has them in the bag solely based on propaganda. The only Obidient that Tinubu has won over are Southwesterners who were too cowardly to vote him in 2023 due to fear of bullying. The North delivered Tinubu. Like I said, we will all learn this politics together.

Gotocourt:
Aminda

Lol. You will learn Northern politics in 2027. Two can play the game. North is a forgone conclusion. Focus on neutralising the difference in the Southeast and Southsouth, and don't go celebrating that even the southwest is in the pocket yet. Tinubu will not get half the numbers he got in 2023 in the Northwest. Also, remember he lost all the Northeastern States to Atiku (except Borno which he won with a tiny margin).

He didn't treat his most outspoken Northwestern ally with respect. It was a strategic mistake. He failed to consolidate on his victory in the Northwest.

Paid article. Making frontpage with only 4 comments. Obasa has been schemed out, paving the way for Seyi. Will other candidates like Gbaja and Hamzat fold their hands and watch?

Lagos APC might just implode in 2027.

Why does Tinubu always like to use plausible deniability when orchestrating clandestine moves against his erstwhile loyalist. Him feigning not to be aware of Obasa's removal is just a way to continue to enjoy Obasa's support after carrying out a coup against him. He also claimed not to be aware about Elrufai's non-confirmation at the Senate but Elrufai is not naïve to buy that. I hope Obasa is smart enough not to be fooled by this.

Every smart political analyst knows that Tinubu's prolonged stay in Lagos during the yuletide and his visit to the Oba of lagos were all in the bid to perfect Obasa's removal. So why the pretense?

Odin13:
Yoruba calls it sophistication…

North has learnt anew, what they used to know

I see some of them jubilating the purported decamping of Kwankwaso to APC and I laugh. After the treatment of Elrufai, any influential northern politician striking a deal with Tinubu will do so with great suspicion and use a very long spoon. Tinubu will struggle to find a northern loyalist that can sell him in the North without being mocked, because the treatment of Elrufai will always be referenced. Betrayals have consequences and they should be honour even amongst thieves.

madridguy:
I will never believe El-Rufai going against Tinubu. I am sure he is a mole to scattered the coalition from within.

But nothing is impossible in Nigeria politics.

Stop playing the Ostrich. Tinubu betrayed Elrufai. You really sound condescending thinking a person of Elrufai's calibre will serve as a mole for Tinubu. Elrufai is like an open book, he does not pretend. When he's for you, he goes all out and when he's against you, the whole world will know.

Softmirror:
Shebi una dey masturbate with El-Rufai. Hahahahaha 😂🤣😆😆🤣😆😆. Kaduna Government alone is enough to put him in his box hahahahaha.
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣

Is he? Have you seen the video of Uba Sani being booed at his polling unit during the local government elections in Kaduna some months ago? Uba Sani is grossly unpopular and propaganda cannot save him. I think the President has made a strategic mistake.

Northern politics starts from Kaduna and extends upwards. When a Southerner betray northern politicians like Elrufai, you are playing high stake and historic games equivalent to the Sardauna, MKO Abiola and Nnamdi Azikiwe eras. It will be documented for the history books and Northerners will remember.

duro4chang:
El- Rufai who sees himself as the encyclopedia of knowledge. He knows more than anyone yet when he was in power there was nothing to show for it.

Clearly you have never been to Kaduna. Elrufai still remains arguably the best governor Kaduna has ever had in terms of infrastructure, reforms, IGR and attraction of investments. Make una dey sometimes leave social media and go outside to touch grass.

I know it has become a cliché for everyone to mouth off "southern Kaduna" but it is an established fact that Kaduna has always had that issue long before Elrufai ever dreamt of governing it. From the Zangon Kataf, to the Miss World debacle and several other historic skirmishes. Killings still persists on the low in Southern Kaduna today but the media is under-reporting for whatever reason.

Oluwabash:
*Says Nigerian govt making contingency plans over Trump’s migration policy

*Explains delays on posting of ambassadors




https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2025/02/02/tuggar-bala-mohammed-creating-north-south-divide/

Tuggar looks very polished from afar but when you hear him speak, you can really see that he lacklustre. Bala is right. We are having the worst run in terms of foreign affairs and diplomacy under this government. From the Niger invasion fiasco, to the ECOWAS exodus and the recent Niger and France back and forth. The optics are just not looking good. They told us Asiwaju was a master at identifying talents but his team has been underwhelming thus far.

Mubiola360:
That even Kaduna rep members rejected El Rufai because of how he governed , yet you blame Tinubu. It is well with your soul

Who are these Kaduna rep members that rejected Elrufai. The 3 PDP senators publicly asked that Elrufai be allowed to take a bow and go. It was televised. Well, breaking news now is that Tinubu just ordered the Lagos house of assembly members to reinstate Obasa. Who is fooling who?

https://gazettengr.com/exclusive-bola-tinubu-orders-lagos-lawmakers-to-reinstate-mudashiru-obasa-as-impeached-politician-refuses-to-vacate-speakers-lodge/

Facts. Elrufai is no pretender. Tinubu already knew his confirmation was not going to scale through, so why did he publicly made him promise to stay back and work with him? That move alone by Tinubu is what is costing him the trust and support of Northerners today, because they always thought he was a man of his word.

It was simply a coup done to take Elrufai out of the 2031 conversation. That was a strategic mistake because it came too early and he is a very formidable foe for anyone to have. Elrufai is a career politician and there's nothing wrong with him aspiring for the presidency after Tinubu. Buhari let all aspirants under APC to contest after his tenure. I guess that's a problem for the President because he apparently never forgave all who contested alongside him, including Osibanjo. So much for being a democrat.

If indeed, it was Shettima and co who convinced the president to ditch Elrufai as some people allege, then they simply did it to pave the way for themselves. How is that democratic and where is the internal democracy? Is APC now a monarchy where a successor will be annointed? Say what you will, Elrufai worked sincerely to deliver the President and the results simply proved how unsellable and difficult a task that was. Whosoever he supported before the primaries is irrelevant because he didn't sign any pact with Tinubu.

Soft landing for someone impeached for embezzlement? Shouldn't the EFCC have him in custody instead? Or is the EFCC treatment only reserved for whoever goes against the "Leader"? We are back to the era of transactional politics of the PDP of old. Nothing inspiring.