THE CABLE
Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna state, has appealed to former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, ex-presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), to join the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
El-Rufai moved to the SDP from the All Progressives Congress (APC) on March 10 over what he described as a divergence in values with the ruling party.
“Developments in the last two years confirm that there is no desire on the part of those who currently control and run the APC to acknowledge, much less address, the unhealthy situation of the party,” he had said.
“On my part, I have raised concerns in private and, more recently, in public regarding the capricious trajectory of the party. Therefore, at this point in my political journey, I have come to the conclusion that I must seek another political platform for the pursuit of the progressive values I cherish.”
In an interview published by BBC Hausa on Saturday, el-Rufai dismissed talks of a merger and urged opposition leaders — including Rauf Aregbesola, former governor of Osun, and Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers — to join the SDP to unseat President Bola Tinubu.
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