The immediate past governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai on Monday said he might be forced to seek another political platform with progressive ideals he believes in if the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) failed to retrace its steps.
El-Rufai who made this known while featuring on ARISE TV said he didn’t want to pass any judgment about the government because anything he said could be misinterpreted.
He said he has not left APC but his party has left him.
El-Rufai stated: “APC has left. We founded that party based on certain values. The party has left me. I am stranded. I’m standing here, the APC is there. So, to be very accurate, I’m not leaving the APC, the APC has already left.”
Asked about his next moves, El-Rufai noted, “Well, I’m not ready to retire from politics. So sooner or later, I may have to find another platform to pursue those progressive values that I believe in. If I can’t find them in the APC, I hope that the APC will meet and correct this and then maybe some of us can look at it again.
“But for now, there are many of us that cannot recognise the party. It is not what we worked out to create. I intend to remain in politics. So sooner or later, if APC doesn’t sort itself out and come back to those progressive values that I stand for and where I’m standing, I would find another platform that has similar value.”
El-Rufai said he supported some of President Bola Tinubu’s policies but added that the sequencing in which they are being implemented was wrong.
His words: “I support some of the policies. Most of the economic policies are the right orthodox policies, but the sequencing is wrong.
“The quality of the people implementing the reforms leaves much to be desired, and I think that some of the reforms are just wrong.
“You don’t don’t address food inflation by destroying domestic agriculture through importation. For instance, food prices may be going down, but farmers are being impoverished because they are being made to compete with subsidized agricultural products from Europe and other countries.
“So, I have issues with many of them, and, you know, I’m in touch with many senior officials of the administration. I give them my opinion privately. But I don’t want to go beyond that.”
