DAILY TRUST
The immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said some persons whom he described as clowns were being paid to defend the President Bola Tinubu-led administration.
El-Rufai said this in reaction to a post by the Special Adviser to the President on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala.
Bwala had tackled the former Kaduna state government over his public criticism of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
El-Rufai, at a national conference forum on strengthening democracy in Nigeria on Monday, described the state of governance and opposition in the country as a “national emergency”.
He openly criticised the ruling party for lacking internal democracy adding that he no longer recognised it
His comment unsettled many party supporters and bigwigs with insinuation that he was planning to dump the APC.
In response, Bwala had posted: “My Senior brother, if you were to be in the government and cabinet, would you have held and expressed the same position? History is replete with examples.
“It is a government you participated in its formation, that you now want to unseat. Haba Mallam, a Ji soron Allah mana…
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