Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has made shocking revelations… “I am not bothered about second term in office. Posterity will judge me on my ongoing efforts to transform the state.”

Governor Nasir El-Rufai

“The emergence of the APC and its clinching on to power in less than four years of its formation is a miracle and the party will repeat the same feat in any election. At 58, I am not looking for any job, cancelling what I’m doing in Kaduna today will be politically costly for any administration that comes after me to do, because of their nature.”

“I am not bothered about agitation for a second term in office, hence I’m taking well grounded decisions that will stand the test of time. There is no threat to the success of the party ahead of the 2019 general elections in the state and beyond because according to me the party has no formidable opposition that could stop it. Many people that voted for the APC in 2015 voted for the party because they were tired of the PDP. Many people voted not really for APC but against PDP.”

“The APC has no opposition, the opposition we have is no opposition because the opposition is within the APC, there are many unhappy people, we also have many rascals, trouble makers and noise makers. They are simply disgruntled because they are used to the PDP ways of doing things, every month give me money, Paris club is here where is my money. They will remain in opposition until you have a way to alienate them.”

“The Nigerian elite is corrupt, selfish, self centred and largely divided, like I said there is need for consensus of the Nigerian elite. Nigerians should hold the elites responsible for the underdevelopment and lack of progress in many states of the federation. I urge citizens to put pressure on state and local government to deliver on good governance rather than looking up to the centre for everything.”

“The youths should be involved in the ongoing political process in order to ultimately take over political power from the current leadership if they are serious about it because no election can be won on twitter, facebook or any social media‎. The elders currently in power will not handover power to the youths for the sake of it, they have to work for it.”