Kaduna State governor Nasir el-Rufai has dropped a bombshell.

He said: I no longer believed in the quality of leadership around President Muhammadu Buhari. A Presidency cabal is working towards an Interim National Government, ING.”

“Leaders around President Buhari resorted to interim government after failing to get either Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, and Senate President Ahmad Lawan to succeed Buhari.”

“Some villa elements are working against the APC Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.”

“I believe in Buhari, I still do and I will never stop, but I no longer believe in the circle around him and the quality of decisions and actions coming out of that leadership.”

“It turned out that some of the wildest stories of conspiracy to derail the transition at best for APC to lose, preferably for the whole system to result in no election, leading to an interim arrangement began to rear their heads.”

“I have no problem naming them. I’m not afraid of anybody. But for me, naming them is giving them traction. They are nothing. They are not capable of winning elections. They have no idea of electoral or political legitimacy. They can only hide behind the likes of President Buhari to achieve their objectives.”

“President Buhari considers the APC like a child he conceived and held in pregnancy for 18 months and gave birth to.”

“He will never, I am ready to stake my neck and my life, President Buhari will never work against the APC. He will never work against the candidate of the APC even if the candidate is the devil himself.”

“What is happening is that there are people around the president that had their presidential candidates. They had two candidates that they preferred to succeed Buhari – Godwin Emefiele from the South and Ahmad Lawan from the North – and they got neither.”