Former Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has stated that he would criticize the Bola Tinubu administration even if he were part of the president’s cabinet.
El-Rufai made this declaration in an X post on Thursday, responding to a remark by presidential media aide, Daniel Bwala.
“Good morning, Bwala Daniel. I was a cabinet minister 22 years ago and made it clear to Asiwaju that I was not interested in any position in his future government. The way you latter-day converts to the Tinubu government make an issue of something I never wanted in the first place reflects your moral flexibility.
If I had remained in the Tinubu government, I would have addressed the issues within the party I helped found, and the government that emerged from it, first in private sessions with those concerned, and then publicly if no remedial actions were taken. Check my public service record from 1998.
I am responding to you because I still think you are a decent person who may need a job, unlike Wendell Simlin and that Kaduna pretender whom our voters retired in 2019. These clowns are political mercenaries receiving hefty monthly stipends from the security vote to defend everything the Asiwaju government does or fails to do, no matter how indefensible.
Enjoy your special adviser position, my brother, but remember that allegiance to God and country comes first in the human scale of accountability, before any person or authority.”
