Nasir El-Rufai, a former governor of Kaduna state, has accused his successor, Governor Uba Sani of sycophancy, and support to President Bola Tinubu for personal gain.
El- Rufai was reacting to comments made by Sani in an interview on TVC news on Monday.
The governor had during the interview, expressed suprise increasing criticism of the Tinubu administration by some founding members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), including some former governors who left office less than two years ago.
Reacting on his verified X handle on Tuesday, El-Rufai alleged that Sani’s ardent support for Tinubu was because of the N150 billion reimbursements to Kaduna state by the federal government in the past 18 months.
Sani’s relationship with predecessor has been cold following alleged stealing of N413 billion by El-Rufai’s eight year administration in Kaduna state.
The former governor wrote on his X; “Every day I see this governor embarrassingly and sycophantically rambling, I used to wonder why? However, confirming that federal government ‘reimbursements, interventions, and grants’ in excess of N150 billion have been given selectively to Kaduna by Tinubu in the last 18 months now explains everything.
“By all means, defend Asiwaju for the conditional cash transfer. “Asiwaju has earned it, coming from you. The people of Kaduna state will judge at the right time and place. Have a nice day.”
Sani, in the TV interview, had criticised some APC members for their public disapproval of Tinubu’s policies, describing their actions as unfortunate and undemocratic.
He said, “I was really surprised when I heard the coalition of politicians coming together at this critical time to make most of those comments they made.
“Some of them were even calling for people to come out and take laws into their hands, oppose the government in a way that I feel is undemocratic”.
Sani urged them to wait for the 2027 elections if they believed they are popular enough to unseat the president.
“Of course, I also want to make it clear here that we’re in a democratic dispensation, and we have just about two and a half years to the next election.
“Any politician who feels he is popular or can defeat Bola Ahmed Tinubu or the APC should work hard and present themselves in the next election,” he said.
