Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has eventually opened up on his memo to President Muhammadu Buhari and his problems with Ex-Presidents Umaru Musa Yar’Adua (late) and Good Jonathan.

“I have written several memos to the president. This is the first one that has leaked. I can state categorically that I did not leak it. If I did I would say so.

“I wrote the memo, it’s my own, I could make it public if I chose to, but I did not. It was a private communication and I can’t understand the motives of those that leaked it. I don’t know who leaked it. But who knows? In these days of Wikileaks, even if it is in your computer it can be hacked and taken out. I don’t want to speculate on who leaked it or whatever, what I am surprised at is those that are attributing motives to the memo without even reading it”.

“There’s nowhere in the memo that I said the government has failed. It’s our government; if it fails then I have failed too. But there’s a lot going on. We are on the political terrain and I am the target of many people for reasons I may come to know later. But anyone that reads that memo will see that I did not intend it to be anything other than a private memo to the president.”

“Secondly, my advice or analysis or opinions were based on what I believe to be the truth and what I think will advance the cause of the president. There is nothing in that memo that is advancing the interest of Nasir El-Rufai or even Kaduna State. It’s about Nigeria, the president’s success and our party.”

“As I said, I have been with the president since 2010, and anytime I write anything and he discusses it with his inner circle, they always say I am very ambitious.

“I have always been accused of having presidential ambition since 2007. I have suffered from these accusations. The late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua exiled me because of it; former President Goodluck Jonathan tried to imprison me because everyone around him told him to keep me busy or I would contest against you in 2015.”