Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El -Rufai says those opposed to power shift to the South include some former Military heads from Northern extraction but said that they are not influential in winning elections compared to governors of the region.
Governor El -Rufai who disclosed this while speaking on BBC Hausa programme described the elders against the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress APC and power rotation to the North as paper weight and liars who can not win even councilorship position adding that they will be disgraced at the February 25 presidential polls.
The governor told the BBC that he, a 63-year-old man, and other northern governors currently in office, were the true northern elders because they have the ability to influence elections in the region.
“I am 63 too, I have children and grandchildren, I am also an elder. So, who are the Northern elders? They should come out and contest elections. I was elected twice,”
“Those claiming to be elders, ask them if they had ever contested for any election, even councilorship position. They are liars, it’s we the Northern Governors that are the Northern elders and leaders of the region,” El -Rufai said
The governor said those trying to scuttle Tinubu’s victory and power shift to the South are putting the North in a very bad light given the support Northerners have enjoyed from the South especially from someone like Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who have done good deeds for the region.
“All these conspiracies and hypocrisy is by people of the North. They want to portray us as ungrateful people, especially we the Northern governors advocating for power shift to the South and support for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,”
He added that those pushing for Tinubu’s defeat would not succeed assuring that Tinubu has already won the election .
“Let me tell you, with all these sabotage and conspiracies, this coming 2023 election, by the grace of God, we have already won. Because God knows our hearts, He knows our plans for Nigeria, He knows our plans for Northern Nigeria, so that we can show the people of Southern Nigeria that we are not ungrateful people and that we return good deed with good deed because Asiwaju has done good us,”
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