The newly-elected governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party of today is a “criminal” party.
El-Rufai said the PDP he belonged to was different from the one being headed by President Goodluck Jonathan, saying the party no longer had respect for the rules and processes.
He said, “It is a big mistake to say that the PDP of 2003 is the same as the Jonathan’s PDP.
“The PDP that I was a member had rules and processes. Let me give you one example. As a minister of FCT, I demolished a house belonging to the Chairman of the PDP.
“Today, no minister of the FCT can touch the house of a member of the PDP National Executive Committee. The PDP in 1999 was not the same as the PDP of today. The PDP of today is a criminal PDP.
“They have no regard for rules. They say that they are Peoples Democratic Party but they have no regard for the people and democracy.
“I was minister on the platform of the PDP but I was not a minister because I was in PDP. I was a minister on merit.”
He said he was not appointed a minister of the Federal Capital Territory by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo as a member of the PDP but as a technocrat.
El Rufai, who spoke during a courtesy visit to the correspondent chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Kaduna on Saturday, said the incumbent Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; a former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili and himself were appointed by Obasanjo as “technocrats” and not on the basis of political party membership.
“The minister representing Kaduna State was Nenadi Usman, because the governor of Kaduna as at that time disowned me and said that I did nothing for the party. But Obasanjo told him that ‘whether you like it or not this man is going to be minister because I have a special assignment for him,’” he said. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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I have always said it that.all those that are critising PDP today is cos of anything but cos jonathan is the leader and cos he is a christian southerner.all those that hate PDP today are hypocritescos only matter of time before they return.
ReplyDeleteWill you stop all this your Christian /Muslim stuff, all we are saying is Jonathan government is not taking anywhere or are you so blind to see that? Why you pple always shift issues. Corruption is being celebrated in our Nigeria today more than ever before and you are their talking rubbish.
DeleteEl Rufai should be ashame of himself after expiring and thrown out of PDP now trying to resurrect in illegal party APC . Rufai expire in politics many years ago, good for nothing- I believe Kano state will show him down and fail him outright because he cannot bit the finger that feeds him.
ReplyDeleteYour ignorance is obvious, anyway no party is illegal, El- Rufai is not in Kano is in Kaduna. Sorry!
DeleteAPC is more criminally minded and El Rufai is an expire stuff
ReplyDeleteI have come to the conclusion after carefully examining comments of many people here. Some people tend to think opposition democracy as bad thing. My advice is that many people should be educated on the meaning of oppostion democracy so that they can better understand it's practice. Even though Nigeria' democracy still guided. It is wrong to term every opposing politician as bad and never mean well for the country.
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