A former Sokoto State Governor and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Attahiru Bafarawa, has reacted to the comment by the Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai that there are no elders left in northern Nigeria.

Bafarawa said the comment was an affront to the North and unpleasant for El-Rufai to categorise all as bad eggs.

The former governor was reacting to the Kaduna State Governor’s comment in his interview with the BBC.

El-Rufai made the comments in his interview with the BBC, claiming there were some elements sabotaging the All Progressives Congress under the guise of new naira notes in a bid to affect the party’s victory at the polls.




“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.

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.”

The former governor while quoting El-Rufai who said “(On) the issue of elders; there is nothing like elders, I am also an elder, I will be 63 years this 2023, so who are the elders in the North? We the northern governors are the elders and we are the leaders of the north,” said age does not indicate being responsible.

The former governor noted that youngsters who reason well in their youthful exuberance are better than someone who is 100 years if we are to consider age.

“He is talking about being 63, doesn’t he see that there are still elders left in the North? For us, we see that these comments are lacking in responsibility.

“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,” he stated.

https://punchng.com/who-told-el-rufai-north-behind-tinubu-bafarawa-asks/

Wamakko


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Bafarawa and El rufai are not speaking on my behalf.

25th is just 3 weeks away anyways.

You can't blame El rufai....he is fighting for his life and political future,he knows kaduna people don't like apc and he is ready to fight dirty.

Attahiru that doesn't have any political value anymore

This whole conversation of who the north is supporting doesn't matter.

Nigerians will evaluate their lives under PDP and apc and make a choice.

Whoever wins life goes on, vote Atiku

The funny thing is that Elrufai won’t even be able to deliver Kaduna for Tinubu because Peter Obi is winning Kaduna.

Muslim votes in Kaduna will be shared by Atiku, Kwankwaso and Tinubu.

While the Christians and Datti’s brothers and sisters in Zaria will vote in bloc for Peter Obi and give him victory in the state.

But Tinubu BATstards will still argue😏

Bafarawa made some valid points. Elrufai should shut it already.

Moh247:





Wamakko


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This one misconstructs state politics for federal

dustmalik:
Attahiru that doesn't have any political value anymore

You're right, Tinubu controls northern politics.

Moh247:

Wamakko
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This guy

Bafarawa should understand that a good turn deserves another.
One's good deed deserved to be reciprocated, the north think we are fools, after helping Buhari they want to sabotage and betray tinubu.

It will not work. We will treat they f-up when tinubu enters villa.

Anybody in the north right now .. knows Elrufia is now seen as a Yoruba slave and Jane lose the little respect he has

Can you compare a wammako to a a Bafarawa in sokoto talk more in north

A Yoruba man will sit in his ikiri e and shout wamako based on what?

Does he even know who is bafarawa ?

Na wao for this urchins ..

Travel dem no go gree .. na to come online the talk gibberishly..

Yoruba sef

Make una fight well and die well. Peter Obi all the way.

Thinkam:


This one misconstructs state politics for federal

Does he even know who’s bafarawa ? That the question

Those guys know nothing .. but will be everywhere with taking gibberish

That apc must win whether people like it or not, he is so sure because the majority of nigerians are very dumb, you will confirm this by the number of people that are going to come here to defend him, if people who are in abject poverty and hunger because of what tinubu helped to foster on nigeria and openly said that he will continue on where buhari stopped are willing to die to bring back what put them in that position in the first place, why can't he be so sure?
That some people see the chains on their hands and the shackles on their legs as ornaments of gold and silver is no problem to people like me but it becomes a problem when they insist that the rest of us sane people must see things the way they see them

Ghen! Ghen! The short bigoted midget & ethno-religious supremacist El Rufai thinks he is the final authority on matters pertaining to the North.

lazynairalander1:
Bafarawa should understand that a good turn deserves another.
One's good deed deserved to be reciprocated, the north think we are fools, after helping Buhari they want to sabotage and betray tinubu.

It will not work. We will treat they f-up when tinubu enters villa.

Lol . You never heard the popular saying. Fear North!

lazynairalander1:
Bafarawa should understand that a good turn deserves another.
One's good deed deserved to be reciprocated, the north think we are fools, after helping Buhari they want to sabotage and betray tinubu.

It will not work. We will treat they f-up when tinubu enters villa.

let tinubu enter villa before making mouth. Tinubu is only sure of SW supporting him now

If you are supporting a Muslim to succeed another Muslim, then you don't have any right to cry because a northener wants to succeed another northerner.

dustmalik:
Attahiru that doesn't have any political value anymore

Ok! because he doesn't currently occupy a political office, well Attahiru Bafarawa was a former governor of Sokoto State

Elrufai will soon become a former governor in a couple of weeks and in using your narrative he will no longer have political value

lazynairalander1:
Bafarawa should understand that a good turn deserves another.
One's good deed deserved to be reciprocated, the north think we are fools, after helping Buhari they want to sabotage and betray tinubu.

It will not work. We will treat they f-up when tinubu enters villa.

You know you guys are too small to intimidate any northerner. Both Atiku and Tinubu are not popular with most northerners. If some are okay with Tinubu, good. If they want Atiku that's their choice.

So,
If you wan to talk about who can say he atleast represents certain portion of the North as at today...

A former Governor Bafarawa or a sitting Governor El-Rufai

Penguin2:
The funny thing is that Elrufai won’t even be able to deliver Kaduna for Tinubu because Peter Obi is winning Kaduna.

Muslim votes in Kaduna will be shared by Atiku, Kwankwaso and Tinubu.

While the Christians and Datti’s brothers and sisters in Zaria will vote in bloc for Peter Obi and give him victory in the state.

But Tinubu BATstards will still argue😏

dey decive yourself, this zaria wey I dey there is no presence of labour party here oga na only apc and pdp matter them dey talk nothing like Peter obi or datti here

Asgard13:


Does he even know who’s bafarawa ? That the question

Those guys know nothing .. but will be everywhere with taking gibberish

Pls tell me who is bafarawa?

Ruggedniggaone:
dey decive yourself, this zaria wey I dey there is no presence of labour party here oga na only apc and pdp matter them dey talk nothing like Peter obi or datti here

Read what I wrote again and you’d see I talked of Datti’s family in Zaria.

Abi those ones will vote Tinubu too?🙄

Savage



Please take it easy on Tinubu... He is aged..


El-Rufai be talking like the god of the north

jogojogo:

Pls tell me who is bafarawa?

Former governor of sokoto state .. from bafarawa local government..

What else you wan know

Penguin2:


Read what I wrote again and you’d see I talked of Datti’s family in Zaria.

Abi those ones will vote Tinubu too?🙄

Bro he dey tell you better truth..

Zaria no dey reason Obi.. infact .. dem dey fight elrufia for dia .. majorly na Pdp.. and Pdp won election there last year..

OBi na southern kaduna matters .. all those Chikun kafachan sabo.. all those area.. even the 51 tribes are divided along political line