The Hypocrisy of El-Rufai

When a man who was deeply embedded in two of Nigeria’s most controversial governments in recent history suddenly adopts a posture of political sanctimony, Nigerians must ask: what exactly is driving this moral crusade? El-Rufai’s criticisms of the Tinubu administration would be more believable if he were not such a central figure in the rise and entrenchment of the very power structure he now derides. As one of the political architects of the All Progressives Congress (APC), El-Rufai played a frontline role in the 2015 coalition that brought former president Muhammadu Buhari to power. For eight years, he stood as one of Buhari’s most vocal defenders, even as the country slipped further into economic turmoil with two devastating recessions, escalating national debt and controversial border closures leading to food shortages, Add these to the reign of terror by terror organizations and the so-called farmer-herders clash, which have resulted in the deaths of about 63,11 Nigerians, according to the Nigeria Security Tracker (NST), all under Buhari’s legendary nepotism.