Nepotism: El-Rufai not qualified to criticise Tinubu, says Shehu Sani

Former lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has criticised the immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, over recent comments on alleged issues of nepotism at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).

The senator, who represented Kaduna Central in the defunct 8th National Assembly, on Sunday took a swipe at the former governor, saying that El-Rufai should not be taken seriously because he could not criticise his kinsman, Muhammadu Buhari, when he was involved in nepotism during his eight years in office.

Sani replied to El-Rufai’s comments via his social media handle on alleged issues of nepotism at NNPCL against President Tinubu.

In the swift reaction to El-Rufai’s shared post, Comrade Sani, via his X handle, replied, “There were people who were silent when Buhari was fielding political offices with his kinsmen and have now found their voice to speak out when the equation doesn’t favor them.”

The former lawmaker stressed further: “Let’s not make reference to the nepotism that marginalised Southern Kaduna for eight years. Kaduna was an apartheid state for eight years.”

According to Shehu Sani, anyone can talk or criticise President Tinubu on issues of alleged lopsided appointments or nepotism, but certainly not El-Rufai.

Meanwhile, Farooq Kperogi, a US-based Nigerian professor of journalism, had accused Tinubu of governing Nigeria with a Lagos mindset.

According to the scholar, Tinubu chose to dominate the economy with people from the Southwest the way former President Buhari loaded the security sector with northerners during his administration.

El-Rufai later shared Kperogi’s post on his X handle and said, “Two wrongs don’t make a right,” adding that sensible inclusion trumps senseless exclusion.