Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has alleged that the crises being faced by opposition parties like the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP), New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and others are contrived and being sponsored by what he called “The government of the day.”
El-Rufai stated this during his visit to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) national headquarters in Abuja on Tuesday, barely 72 hours after he resigned from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the SDP.
El-Rufai, who was one of the founding members of the ruling APC, resigned from the party and joined the opposition SDP on Monday.
In a statement issued on Monday announcing his defection, El-Rufai said developments in the last two years confirmed that those who currently control and run the APC did not desire to acknowledge, much less address, the party’s unhealthy situation.
The former Kaduna Governor further claimed on Tuesday that even the act of going to courts, divisions, and factions across opposition parties were contrived by the ruling APC to destabilise the opposition.
He said, “The crisis that is being faced in the Labour Party is contrived and funded by the government of the day.
“Everyone knows it. Jumping from one court to another is all designed to distract the party leadership from focusing on their functions.
“The same thing is happening in the PDP, even the NNPP has been targeted with distraction.
“There are people that have been resourced to go and cause problems in the NNPP. The last thing I read about NNPP was that one faction of the party has expelled Kwankwaso and the sitting governor.
“When you see things like that, you know it’s contrived crisis. Which party sacks a sitting governor? The only governor they have, you know it is contrived.
“I don’t have the details, I cannot mention names,” El-Rufai added.
