Civil rights activist and former lawmaker in the National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, has again criticised the immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, following his allegations that President Bola Tinubu changed his mind about making him a minister after begging him publicly to be part of his administration.

Specifically, in an interview with Arise Television on Monday night, El-Rufai said that after Tinubu had begged him to come on board and be part of his cabinet, the President, for reasons best known to him, made a U-turn and changed his mind.

He had said, “The President begged me publicly to come and serve in his government. I had my plans, and I told President Tinubu from day one when he asked me to support him, I said I would, but I don’t want anything because politics in Nigeria is always about what do I get for giving you support?”

Meanwhile, while reacting to the interview, Sani stated that President Tinubu had no option but to change his mind about El-Rufai due to a lack of trust in the former governor.

Senator Sani, in a post he shared on his X handle on Tuesday, called El-Rufai a traitor who had betrayed some of his trusted allies, including the late former President Musa Yar’Adua.

Sani remarked that no president in his right mind would trust a man who has a penchant for selling out his friends for his political ambition.

“Neither in the present nor in the nearest future; no Nigerian president in his right senses will ever closely embrace or trust a man who repeatedly celebrated and gloated about sending President Yar’Adua to his grave,” Sani added.

According to the civil rights activist, it’s a case of if you can do this and say this about your own brother, what about me?

“No one will ever admit a man into his house who came with a sword stained with the blood of his brother,” Sani added.