The immediate past Publicity Secretary of the PDP in Benue State, Chief Bemgba Iortyom, warned former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai to stop heating the polity with his posturing as the mouthpiece of the north.
The PDP chieftain stated that playing the South against the North in the name of promoting the interest of the region is an ill wind that will bring no good.
El-Rufai shared an opinion by one Uche Diala, a member of the APC, who warned that if care is not taken, President Tinubu may be given the ‘Goodluck Jonathan treatment’ ahead of the next presidential election.
El-Rufai shared on the verified X handle the opinion titled ‘2027: South West, Tinubu’s supporters playing with fire—Part 1.’
The post asserted that the relationship between Tinubu and the North had deteriorated less than two years into his administration.
El-Rufai has been attacking the ruling party and the policies of the Tinubu government, even as political gladiators across the party lines continued to mull the idea of floating a coalition capable of defeating the APC.
Reacting to El-Rufai’s claims, the PDP chieftain said, “So I asked again, who are the northerners? Are they Almajiris who are the real face of poverty or El-Rufai, whose children are part of the bourgeois? I think one of his sons is in the House of Reps, right? You have his children in the upper echelons of life. He wants you to understand that he and his children and those Talakawa and the downtrodden are all North.
“He should basically be trying to pacify certain areas where he has caused so much strife within the polity of that state. El-Rufai had placed himself in a larger perspective in the eyes of Nigerians as an ethnic and religious extremist.
“He’s not the sort of person that should be talking about the north and the south dichotomy. As far as I’m concerned, he’s only leading a crusade in the wrong direction.”
