Supporters of Mr. Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, have accused Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State, of engaging in divisive politics.
The supporters said that El-Rufai had shown intolerance by fabricating a story about Obi’s house detention in 2013 while Obi was in Anambra on electoral business.
The group urged President Muhammadu Buhari to warn him during a press conference where it was led by Barrister Tony Chukwuelue, Mike Okaka, Johnny Obika, and Shehu Alhassan.
“El-Rufai has unsuccessfully tried severally to smear Obi with his numerous delusional fabrications to torpedo the OBIdient ship which is cruising to Aso Rock.
“First El-Rufai denied Obi’s supporters the use of public facilities for their one million man march, then his lies that he was prevented from going out of his hotel by Peter Obi in 2013.
“We wonder if El-Rufai knows that it is the Commissioner of Police that is responsible for issuance of arrest and detention orders and not a Governor.”
The organisation bemoaned the fact that El-Rufai has persisted in spreading untrue information about Obi despite having publicly admitted in a video clip that the security personnel he had encountered were detailed from Abuja headquarters.
“For those who know El-Rufai, he is one restless sadist and serial betrayer occupying political space in Nigeria.
“He has since betrayed Atiku Abubakar who brought him to political consciousness. A former president of Nigeria who also appointed El-Rufai into his cabinet also recorded him as a serial liar and an inconsistent person. He also wants to betray Buhari, the man who made his occupation of the Kaduna Government House possible.”
Great Nigeria 4 Obi-Datti (GN4ObiDatti), a group, criticised El-Rufai’s performance in Kaduna as being “very appalling,” noting that he has presided over a region that is now inaccessible by road, train, or air.
“In a civilised nation, el-Rufai would have voluntarily tendered a letter of resignation of office as Governor of Kaduna State, having presided over the most unsafe state, where one cannot travel by road, by train or by air.”
