Former Sokoto State governor and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, Attahiru Bafarawa, has expressed sadness over comments made by the Kaduna State Governor Nasir El Rufai, that there are no elders left in northern Nigeria.
Bafarawa described the comment as an affront to the North, adding that it was unpleasant for El-Rufai to categorise all as bad eggs, insisting that there were good ones.
The former governor, who was reacting to the Kaduna State governor’s comment in his interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation, said El-Rufai and other supporters of Bola Tinubu in the northern part of the country should be ready for shock as APC is not in charge of votes in the North.
El-Rufai had alleged that there were some elements sabotaging their party, the All Progressives Congress, under the guise of new naira notes so that they won’t win the 2023 general elections.
“He was insisting that Tinubu must win the election and that whether people like it or not, they have already won. Who told him that the whole of the North is supporting the APC?
“This is just his opinion; in that case, he has no right to insist for the North because everybody has his candidate. The way he is campaigning for Tinubu, is how we are campaigning for our candidate.
“El-Rufai cannot force us Northerners to vote for a non-native candidate.”
“On February 25th, a decision will be made. While he is busy running for office on behalf of their party, we are doing the same for our own candidate.
“We will shock them, we will make them understand that this country belongs to nobody, likewise the North.”
