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El-Rufai’s Son Calls Vice President Shettima “Spineless,” Urges Action Against Alleged Corruption at Aso Rock

A now deleted social media post by Bashir Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, son of former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai, has sparked debate online after he publicly criticized Nigeria’s Vice President, Kashim Shettima.

In a now deleted post shared on X (formerly Twitter) on March 6, 2026, Bashir El-Rufai described the Vice President as “painfully spineless” while urging him to take decisive action against what he called a “corrupt criminal family system” within the Presidential Villa.

“I like Shettima. He’s just painfully spineless. I hope one day he realizes he is positioned in a unique place, and ability to take the whole corrupt criminal family system at the Villa down. He has the leverage tbh,” he wrote.

The remark appears to suggest that the Vice President possesses significant influence within the administration but has not exercised it forcefully enough to challenge alleged wrongdoing at the seat of government.


The question on social media is - what does Bashir seem to suggest by asking the VP to take down the President??

Political observers note that the unguarded remark could suggest that the former governor’s son wants the Vice President to take action that could see the president eliminated. By the Nigerian Constitution, if that happens, Shettima would automatically become president.


Many political commentators have condemned his unguarded remarks and have called for a probe into the matter, with some suggesting that his statement is treasonable and could land him in trouble with the authorities.

As of press time, Bashir El-Rufai had not released any follow-up clarification regarding the post.

https://leaders.ng/2026/03/06/el-rufais-son-calls-vice-president-shettima-spineless-urges-action-against-alleged-corruption-at-aso-rock/

He will soon follow his father, na for Onitsha prison they will soon land after everything.

I thought he would have learnt a great lesson about unguarded utterance and it's consequences from the predicament of his Father!!!

Wike is The Functional Vice President,
Shettima is The Ceremonial VP

Family full of unguarded mouths..

Like father like Son.

DSS just dey smile for corner

If these guys suddenly find themselves as the president lasan, nobody go fit talk against them, they go just Dey mud as they like.

How can everybody for one family have the same mindset and unguarded utterances.

Na so their papa dey talk think say nobody fit catch am. Now baba Dey spend Ramadan fasting for detention

Who is Shettima and which place is the villa? Shettima na common name for North na and the villa fit be his Papa house. The Bobo just de play mind games with una. I am sure that all these post and delete na deliberate action. He has just passed his message across to the intended parties.

dawnomike:
I thought he would have learnt a great lesson about unguarded utterance and it's consequences from the predicament of his Father!!!

He's a slowpoke,a daft one blessed with the neck of a giraffe but couldn't look beyond what he can see.he sure misses his father and want to be beside him where he is.
I don't like this present administration but a treasonable comment is a no no

Arostar2023:
Who is Shettima and which place is the villa? The Bobo just de play mind games with una. I am sure that all these post and delete na deliberate action.

Na because say they no wan reason him side yet.

When they mean am, all those deletion no go matter.

Is he asking the VP to plan a coup? Because I don't understand.

If he's picked up now, Obidients will start wailing

No be 4 dis mata na...maybe some other time him go miss yarn. Dem no fit win dis case against him...

LegendHero:
Na because say they no wan reason him side yet.

When they mean am, all those deletion no go matter.

Still trying to live the life he used to live

He became house of representative member via his father's manipulation. Let us see how his reelection goes.. can't this one learn from his father's predicament.

COMRADES, I may agree with elrufai on this

I think this family is deeply involved in some form of illicit substance(s). It's crazy that a whole family can make so many unguarded statements at different times. Like not one member or two, every member of this family has said some nonsense at one point or the other, NUMEROUS TIMES.

Like father like son.

Both of them will soon be reunited in prison.

Being messaging you. Pls check PM

Parachoko:
Is he asking the VP to plan a coup? Because I don't understand.

If he's picked up now, Obidients will start wailing

dawnomike:
I thought he would have learnt a great lesson about unguarded utterance and it's consequences from the predicament of his Father!!!

How do I reach you please?

123yes:
He became house of representative member via his father's manipulation. Let us see how his reelection goes.. can't this one learn from his father's predicament.

It's his brother bello that's house of rep member.thus one is bashir. Though that bello as well used to run his mouth as well before but toned it down when he decided to enter politics

Like father like son. They should allow him to chill in detention for a while to rejig his loose mouth

dawnomike:
I thought he would have learnt a great lesson about unguarded utterance and it's consequences from the predicament of his Father!!!

He hasn't learned anything he will go down with his father soonest.

I think it is curse on the family to have a loose mouth with leaked brain. We shall know who is spineless in a month time.

Unguarded speech and write up from the Son of the Man who made an unguarded speech.

El Rufai has a terrible human beings as family.

No respect for anyone and if picked up to salaye now, ADC coalifusion members would say it's persecution.

LegendHero:
If these guys suddenly find themselves as the president lasan, nobody go fit talk against them, they go just Dey mud as they like.

How can everybody for one family have the same mindset and unguarded utterances.

Na so their papa dey talk think say nobody fit catch am. Now baba Dey spend Ramadan fasting for detention

even the mama follow too

What are the authorities waiting for before they get him arrested?

It seems that the El-Rufai family has a diarrhea of the mouth.

Instead of him to learn from his father's unguarded statement on live television, he too is following the same path of infamy.

Shettima must be very wary of those urging him to commit treason against the Nigerian state.

If the DSS or any of the security agencies links him to any clandestine activities to take out his boss, the fate that would befall him shall be unimaginable.

Nigeria is already sitting on a tinderbox and any attempt to remove Mr President through unconstitutional and criminal means would definitely set up a conflagration that would tear Nigeria apart.

To be forewarned is to be forearmed!




@hotseat

All I know is that Jagaban must be very careful, they are playing their last card!

Coward! How he come delete the post. Mumu

Words are like bullets, he shot this one, too late to retrieve them.