Speaking during a TVC interview, Showunmi declared: “Nasir El-Rufai is the bravest of them all in the coalition. At least he had the capacity to say, ‘Okay, I’m not being treated well.”
Showunmi contrasted this with previous political dynamics, stating: “When the shoe was on the other leg, and people perceived that President Tinubu was not being treated well by the Buhari government. At least Nasir El-Rufai had the discipline and the sense to go to the then-president to say, ‘No, we can’t treat him like this.’”
Offering an insider information that he was privy to, he revealed: “And I can tell you, because I’m an insider, and I know certain things. The then-President Buhari dispatched the Vice President Osinbajo and El-Rufai to go and plead with Tinubu in London.”
He noted that political relationships have shifted with President Tinubu being the one appealing to the former Kaduna Governor not to leave the party: “And Tinubu has now also pleaded with Nasir El-Rufai. But if he says he’s out, and he has gone through the process of saying, ‘I’ll check with this, and I will check with that,’ and he has said, ‘I am out,’ that is his right.”
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