By Bayo Wahab
The Presidency has dismissed claims by former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is looking for to make himself a “life president,” insisting that the President has no plan to stay in workplace past 2031 if re-elected.
El-Rufai, talking over the weekend, had urged former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to rally Nigerians in opposition to President Tinubu in 2027, alleging that the present administration is centralising energy as a substitute of devolving it to the decrease ranges.
“If we don’t come collectively and finish this Tinubu administration by 2027, Tinubu will attempt to be our Paul Biya, to be president for all times. All of the indicators are there, that is how Paul Biya began,” El-Rufai mentioned.
Reacting in a press release on Sunday, presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, described El-Rufai’s remarks as “unfounded claims and speculations.”
He mentioned, “It’s more and more evident that El-Rufai has recognised the futility of makes an attempt by his associates in his new social gathering to stop President Tinubu’s doubtless re-election in 2027. This plot is proving to be unattainable, a mission doomed to fail.”
Onanuga famous that President Tinubu’s recognition stays robust, particularly within the North, citing the reception he obtained in Kaduna final Friday.
In keeping with Onanuga, El-Rufai “resorted to spreading additional unfounded tales, together with the declare that President Tinubu intends to turn out to be a ‘life president’ due to Tinubu’s reception within the Northwest state.
“This stands in stark distinction to El-Rufai’s narrative that the area has deserted the President,” he mentioned.
The Presidency additional dismissed El-Rufai’s suggestion of a plan for tenure elongation as “baseless and absurd.”
Onanuga burdened, “President Tinubu is a democrat who doesn’t intend to remain in workplace past Could 28, 2031, when re-elected in 2027.”
He added that Governor Uba Sani would possibly want to achieve out to his predecessor, as “El-Rufai may gain advantage from some skilled counselling to steer him away from his current hallucinations and political fabrications on Tinubu and 2027.”
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