‘Crisis In Opposition Parties Sponsored By Tinubu Govt’, Says El-Rufai

The immediate-past governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, has alleged that the crises being faced by opposition parties like the PDP, LP, NNPP, amongst others, were being sponsored by “the government of the day.”

El-Rufai stated this during a visit to the
Social Democratic Party (SDP) national headquarters on Tuesday, barely 72 hours after he resigned from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the SDP.

LEADERSHIP recalls that El-Rufai, who was one of the founding members of the ruling APC, resigned and joined the opposition party on Monday.

In a statement issued on Monday announcing his defection, El-Rufai said developments in the last two years confirmed that those who currently control and run the APC did not desire to acknowledge, much less address, the party’s unhealthy situation.

The former governor said on Tuesday that even the act of going to courts, divisions, and factions across opposition parties were all contrived by the ruling party to destabilise the opposition.

“The crisis that is being faced in the Labour Party is contrived and funded by the government of the day.

“Everyone knows it. Jumping from one court to another is all designed to distract the party leadership from focusing on their functions.

“The same thing is happening in the PDP, even the NNPP has been targeted with distraction.

“There are people that have been resourced to go and cause problems in the NNPP. The last thing I read about NNPP was that one faction of the party has expelled Kwankwaso and the sitting governor.

“When you see things like that, you know it’s contrived crisis. Which party sacks a sitting governor? The only governor they have, you know it is contrived.

“I don’t have the details, I cannot mention names,” El-Rufai stated.