Presidency To El-Rufai: “Your Inordinate Ambition Doomed To Fail”

By Adesina Soyooye

“Tinubu owns SDP” – Joe Igbokwe

The Presidency has reacted to the defection of the immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai from the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the Social Democratic Party, SDP.

El-Rufai, a foundation member of the APC, after he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, a party under which he was the Minister for the Federal Capital Territory, helped, in no small measure, to actualize the Presidency of President Bola Tinubu.

But a couple of months after Tinubu came on  board, El-Rufai was dumped, literally, to the extent that he was   not cleared by the Senate for a Ministerial position, an assurance he had from Tinubu. El-Rufai said Tinubu had assured him he would be the Minister for Power, and holds Tinubu responsible for his humiliation at the Senate.

Since then, the relationship between him, Tinubu and APC had continued to deteriorate. He became a strong critic of both Tinubu and the APC. He fell out with Nuhu Ribadu, National Security Adviser, and a former bosom friend of his. He also fell out with his State Governor and successor, Uba Sani, whose Principal he was. He accused them of betrayal. And embarked on a mobilization of forces to ease Tinubu out of office in 2027.

On Monday, March 10, everything came to a hilt when El-Rufai dumped the APC for the Social Democratic Party, SDP.

In response to El-Rufai’s defection, the Presidency said his alliance with those opposed to President Tinubu is neither based on ideology or progressivism. Instead, the Presidency said through Daniel Bwala, President Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, it is based on El-Rufai’s inordinate ambition.

Bwala also told El-Rufai that he has embarked on a bad business because he is associating with sore losers doomed to fail.

Said Bwala in a post on his X handle: “Senior,@elrufai, I read the news today that you have resigned from APC to join SDP. While you have the right to do so, we will soon examine your motive and remind Nigerians that your decision did not come out of nowhere. Associating with sore losers to unseat the President is not an ideology or progressivism – it is simply an ambition doomed to fail”.

For the records, Joe Igbokwe, an APC chieftain, has

indirectly told El-Rufai that defecting to SDP was a big mistake.

According to Igbokwe, “Tinubu owns SDP.”