El-Rufai Makes U-turn, Supports Obi, Says “Sai Obi”

By Charles Igbo

Bashir El-Rufai, a son of the immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, has become a huge fan of Peter Obi, a former Governor of Anambra State and Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 General Elections.

Recall that Bashir, a member of the House of Representatives, presented himself as a thorn in Obi’s flesh. He was Obi’s strong critic just like his father.

But today, El-Rufai jnr. is singing a new song. He says he was deceived on Obi; that it was members of his Party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, who deceived him, and made him say unpleasant things about Obi. Particularly, he was very strongly opposed to Obi’s 2023 Presidential bid.

Now, he says Obi is a good man.

In a post on his official X handle on Monday, he wrote: “Peter Obi is surprisingly not a bad person, afterall. My views on him have changed recently. My mind was poisoned by my former party members. Sai Obi”

Bashir’s comments come on the heels of speculations that his father and Obi could make a bid for the 2027 Presidential seat on same ticket.

Instructively, it also came on the day his father dumped the APC, a Party which foundation member he was, for the Social Democratic Party, SDP.