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Nasir El-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna State, has been described by the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the quintessential self-interested politician who is egotistical.

El-Rufai is a politician, according to the APC, who is fueled by wild emotion and a vindictive desire to “collapse the system.”

El-Rufai was urged by the ruling party to stop pouting and take control of his life in a statement released by Felix Morka, its National Publicity Secretary.

Morka was responding to the former governor’s denigration of the APC in interviews.

The former governor just joined the Social Democratic Party (SDP) after leaving the APC.

He explained his decision to defect to the SDP by saying that the party had strayed from its original principles.

El-Rufai also called on leaders of the opposition to join the SDP.

Dismissing 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.”

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