The Cabal Has Been Misadvising Buhari – Governor El-Rufai; Says Battleline Drawn

By Gideon Njoku

The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari has been a victim of those he called “The Cabal”, who he claims have been misadviding and misleading the President. “We shall show them. We have drawn the battle line”, he said.

In the past two days, El-Rufai has been hitting at  everywhere and everybody below the belt. He has accused some elements in the Presidency of working against the victory of the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, but said they will be dealth with. He has attacked the policies of the Buhari administration, especially the new Naira design as ill-timed and targeted against the General Elections. He has also said that the masses are the ones suffering the scarcity of the Naira and not the Governors and Politicians and top businessmen who already have the new Naira notes stashed away. He revealed that while the masses cry, an unnamed Governor withdrew the sum of N500 million of the new Naira notes from a bank.

Now, in an interview he granted to the BBC Hausa Service, Friday, the Governor has revealed that members of the Cabal in Aso Rock have been misadvising the President.

The Cabal, he said, is working hand in hand with Northern elders against power shift to the South.

But, he quickly dismissed the Northern Elders as empty and of no use, explaining that power does not reside on them, but on  the Governors in the North. He said the Elders have no powers,  at all, to influence the voting pattern in the North. “The real elders who can swing votes are the 19 (APC) Governors in the North”, he said.

He  promised to unmask the identities of those in Aso Rock and their collaborators working against the electoral victory of the APC.

Governor el-Rufai:

“All these conspiracies and hypocrisy is by people of the North. They want to portray us as ungrateful people especially, we the Northern governors advocating for power shift to the South and support for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

When asked who are the Northern people responsible for the conspiracy, el-Rufai said he won’t mention any name now, but, however, added that it does not mean they were afraid of anyone either, but just respecting deserving elders only.

Tackling them, he said:

“The Cabal has been responsible for ill-advising President Muhammadu Buhari for some time now while the same people are the ones benefiting from the ruling APC. We will stop them soon.

“Let me tell you, with all these sabotage and conspiracies, this coming 2023 election, by the grace of God, we have already won. Because God knows our hearts, He knows our plans for Nigeria, He knows our plans for Northern Nigeria, so that we can show the people of Southern Nigeria that we are not ungrateful people and that we return good deed with good deed because Asiwaju has done good us.

“Leave those people they call elders. I am 62 year-old now, I will be 63 later this month. That was the same age Prophet Muhammad (SAW) finished his work and died. I am also an elder, nobody will tell me he is an elder. If you see me kneeling down to greet anyone, it’s because of respect and that’s what I do for Baba Buhari, but tell me if you ever see me doing same for others older than him. I know a real elder and I know the bad one.

“I am 63 too, I have children and grandchildren, I am also an elder. So, who are the Northern elders? They should come out and contest elections. I was elected twice. Those claiming to be elders, ask them if they had ever contested for any election, even councilorship position. They are liars, it’s we the Northern Governors that are the Northern elders and leaders of the region.

“The battleline has been drawn, we are determined, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be the next President, and we will disgrace them.”