Farouk Aliyu, a longtime ally of ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, says Nasir El-Rufai would right now be “busy insulting northern leaders and other politicians” if President Bola Tinubu had handed him a ministerial seat.
Speaking Friday on Arise TV’s *The Morning Show*, Aliyu branded the former Kaduna governor self-serving and “dishonest.”
El-Rufai, remember, crisscrossed the north last year stumping for Tinubu. After his name was yanked from the ministerial list, he turned critical, labeling the administration “the worst government Nigerians have ever seen.” He has since left the APC for the Social Democratic Party and is trying to stitch together an opposition bloc to boot Tinubu out in 2027.
Aliyu’s take:
“If Nasir had been made a minister, he would have been at the forefront of insulting people. But he lost out and can’t accept it as God’s will. The same party that made him governor for eight years now that he’s out of power, he’s insulting leaders and creating division. This is the same man who said, ‘Whether northerners like it or not, it must be Tinubu.’ The political elite in this country are all the same—most of us are dishonest.”
