By Suleiman Anyalewechi
Honourable Bashir El-Rufai, son of the detained former Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has expressed deep shock and regret over the tendency by opposition leaders to replay the disastrous political script that handed over the Presidency.to Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2023.
Reacting on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, to the avoidable split of the opposition Coalition Camp, the young El-Rufai, a serving member of the 10th National Assembly, expressed serious concern that the opposition may once again hand victory back to President Tinubu going by their inability to stay together.
The Source reports that the hitherto closely knit rank of the opposition Coalition platform, the African Democratic Congress ADC, was penultimate Sunday, divided following the exit of Peter Obi and Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the 2023 Presidential candidates of the Labour Party LP and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP.
Both men who are leading the two most organic political Movements in recent times- Obidient and Kwankwasiyya, have since joined forces with the nascent political platform, the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, for a possible Presidential pairing ahead of the 2027 polls.
Their defection has severely disrupted the fast growing momentum of the ADC which still has in its fold former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, former Senate President, David Mark, Rauf Aregbesola, former Governor of Osun State, Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, former Governor of Sokoto State, and a host of others.
In a post shared on his official site, Bashir, the eldest son of former Kaduna state Governor Malam El-Rufai, himself a prominent figure in the ADC, expressed disappointment with the inability of supposedly experienced political actors to manage differences and avoid committing the same mistakes of 2023.
“This man (referring to President Tinubu) got 8M votes , Waziri ( Atiku) 6M and Obi 6M ( I think) .
” I will never understand how these seasoned politicians are making the same mistakes committed last time due to lack of cohesion, resulting in the splitting of votes.
The Kaduna state-born Federal Lawmaker, also, wondered how the ADC, an imposing and bourgeoning Coalition platform that once evoked fear in the system is now trying to squander such a rare opportunity.
“For a while, the ADC put the fear of God in their hearts and that is because they know what we all know”, Bashir added.
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