Tinubu Govt Funded Ongoing Crises In PDP, Labour Party, Others— El-Rufai
Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has claimed that pockets of crises rocking opposition parties, including the Labour Party (LP), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) were orchestrated and funded by President Bola Tinubu’s government.
El-Rufai, who defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Social Democratic Party (SDP) on Monday, made this allegation in a video sighted on Tuesday.
He spoke at the office of his new party, claiming that the internal conflicts rocking the opposition were being deliberately fueled by the federal government to weaken them ahead of future elections.
“The crisis that… is facing in the Labour Party is contrived and funded by the government of the day. Everyone knows it,” El-Rufai declared.
He accused the ruling party of using legal battles as a tool to destabilise opposition leadership.
“Jumping from one court to another is all designed to distract the party leadership from focusing on their own functions,” he said.
According to El-Rufai, the same strategy is being applied to other opposition parties, including the PDP and the NNPP, where factional disputes have intensified in recent months.
“The same thing is happening in the PDP. Even in the NNPP. There are people that have been resourced to go and cause problems in NNPP,” he alleged.
The former governor pointed to the recent internal crisis within the NNPP, where a faction of the party reportedly expelled its leader, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, and Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf.
“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 will know it is a contrived crisis. Which party sacks a sitting governor? And the only governor they have,” he queried.
El-Rufai, however, admitted that he lacked full details about the alleged government interference but insisted that the pattern of events suggested deliberate political sabotage.
“I don’t have the details. I cannot mention names because I don’t have the details,” he added.