Shehu Sani criticises El-Rufai again over Tinubu ministerial claim

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.