Defection: Politician driven by self-interest and blinded by ego – APC criticizes El-Rufai.
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The All Progressive Congress (APC) has criticized former governor of Kaduna state Nasir El-Rufai, describing him as the embodiment of a self-centered politician blinded by his ego.
According to the APC, El-Rufai is driven by unchecked emotions and harbors a strong desire to ‘‘bring down the system” out of vengeance.
In a statement released by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, the ruling party urged El-Rufai to stop sulking and regain composure.
Morka was responding to the former governor’s interviews, in which he criticized the APC.
Recently, the former governor defected from APC to SDP, citing a deviation from the party’s founding principles as the reason for his move.
El-Rufai also called on opposition leaders to join him in the SDP.
Rejecting his call, Morka said, “@elrufai call for opposition members to join him under SDP banner is nothing short of an invitation to drink from a chalice poisoned by selfishness, vengefulness and delusion of grandeur.
“In his frenzied attempt to justify his rather implausible exit from the All Progressives Party (APC), Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, former Governor of Kaduna State, in an interview with BBC Hausa, opined that APC has deviated from the progressive ideals of its founders, and turned into a party where ‘everyone is now pursuing personal interests.
“In a once viral video, El-Rufai did not hold back when he deprecated politicians he argued were consumed by pursuit of self interest. In his words, “we have politics of private interest. We have no politics of public interest. Politicians will proudly tell you that politics is about interest. If they don’t get what they want, they are ready to collapse the system.
“Today, EI-Rufai stands diminished as the epitome of a self-interested politician, blinded by ego, driven by untamed emotion, and brimming with a vengeful desire to “collapse the system.
“In his BBC interview under reference, El-Rufai supplied the real reason for his soreness, stating that he was disappointed by the way he was treated by President Bola Tinubu and his administration, in ostensible reference to his failed ministerial bid.
“His claim that he exited because the Party had deviated from its founding values or progressive ideology is a smokescreen to weaponize personal grievance garbed as principled dissent. El-Rufai’s appears traumatized by his failure to land a ministerial position. Nursing a bruised ego, he now lashes out at the platform on which he rode to political prominence.
“APC’s commitment to its founding values and ideals remain as valid and progressive today as they were then. El-Rufai’s allegation of a drift from our Party’s founding values exists only in his foggy imagination.”
