2027 Poll: El-Rufai mum on support for Tinubu’s second term

A founding member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, kept mum on whether he would endorse or oppose the purported second-term ambition of President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 poll.

Speaking on Arise Television on Monday night, he explained that he would make his stand known after consulting widely with his supporters.

El-Rufai, who was a strong advocate of the rotational presidency between the North and South in the 2023 poll, also declined to state whether he would support a Northern or Southern presidential candidate in the 2027 poll.

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Recalling how he mobilized support for President Tinubu after he picked the presidential ticket of the APC in the build-up to the 2023 poll, he described the appointments made so far as skewed and imbalanced in favour of his “boys” from the South West geopolitical zone.

El-Rufai insisted that Tinubu’s appointments of persons into positions in ministries, departments, and agencies of government were not necessarily done to please his South-West geopolitical zone, where he hails from.

Claiming that President Tinubu has incurred the wrath of the electorate in the North over the imbalance in the appointments and some of his reforms that have inflicted pain and hardship on them, he said it was left to President Tinubu to correct the anomaly before it costs him his second-term aspiration in the 2027 poll.