Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has once again taken a swipe at former governor Nasir El-Rufai, delivering a scathing critique of his leadership style and political legacy.
Sani asserted that if El-Rufai had secured a position in President Bola Tinubu’s administration, opposition voices would have been ruthlessly stifled.
According to him, the former governor is notorious for his “undisguised intolerance to opposition and hypersensitive allergy to criticisms.”
El-Rufai, who recently distanced himself from the All Progressives Congress (APC), cited a lack of internal democracy within the party, claiming that key organs such as the National Executive Committee (NEC) and Caucus have not convened in two years.
Speaking at an event in Abuja, he accused the APC of straying from its founding ideals.
However, Sani was quick to dismiss El-Rufai’s newfound stance, insisting that the former governor has no moral ground to advise anyone on governance.
Taking to X, Sani wrote: “The man with a history of undisguised intolerance to opposition and hypersensitive allergy to criticisms have no moral and saintly feet to stand on the pulpit of democracy to preach about good governance.”
He further lambasted El-Rufai’s administration in Kaduna, stating: “He left a heap of garbage in Kaduna now preaching hygiene to a country that has not forgotten the history of his dirt. The man who looted Kaduna State, piled up debt for our people, used religion to divide the people of the state, enriched and shared lands to friends and family members, disobeyed court orders, persecuted journalists, arrested people for criticising him on social media, monetised banditry is now telling others how to govern.”
Sani didn’t stop there. He suggested that if El-Rufai had been given a role in Tinubu’s government, critics both in the North and South would have suffered under his rule. He mocked the former governor’s apparent political frustration, stating: “He thought he would have a puppet governor in Kaduna State, now it’s the opposite and he is frustrated. He is now jobless, most times seeking to be invited to Northern public events where he will whip up sectional sentiments.”
With tensions still simmering between the two political figures, Sani’s remarks add another layer to the ongoing clash, painting El-Rufai as a leader whose past actions starkly contradict his current rhetoric on democracy and governance.