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Femi Fani-Kayode says the recent comment made by Nasir El-Rufai on Muslim-Muslim ticket does not make the former governor of Kaduna a religious bigot or a terrorist.
Fani-Kayode threw his weight behind El-Rufai after the former governor was captured speaking on how the Muslim-Muslim ticket helped the APC retain power in Kaduna as well as influence President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the 2023 presidential election.
In the video, El-Rufai, who was addressing a congregation of Muslim clerics (In Hausa) in Kaduna, said, “We successfully did it in Kaduna (Muslim-Muslim ticket) and it has now been replicated all over the country.”
Reacting to the criticisms directed at El-Rufai, Fani-Kayode said critics are only jealous of the ex-governor.
The ex-minister of aviation said: “When Nasir El Rufai, Bello Matawalle, and Yahaya Bello took President Muhammadu Buhari to court and defeated him over the illegal and ill-fated cash grab/new notes policy they were considered to be heroes and the entire world commended them.
“Yet sadly today, simply because he made some comments about the Muslim/Muslim ticket before a gathering of Muslim clerics in Kaduna State he is being demonized and labeled as a religious bigot, a terrorist, a fascist, and an Islamist fanatic by mainly those who do not share his religious faith, who do not know him, who have never met him and who are in a different political party to him.
