Tinubu, have differences.
Congratulating the Minister of Interior and former Governor of Osun
State, Rauf Aregbesola on his 63rd birthday during a Webinar, Elrufai
said Tinubu is not his man.
El-Rufai said, “I want to congratulate my brother, Ogbeni (Aregbesola),
on his birthday. You know I’m your man any day. I’m not Asiwaju’s man
and you are Asiwaju’s man, but I am your man any day. Asiwaju and I have
differences, but you and I have no differences.”
Both men are rumored to be plotting to run for the Presidential
elections on the platform of the APC in 2023. Sources say that is why
they have been having a cold war.
Elrufai had suggested that godfatherism can be defeated, in what was
seen as an attack at Tinubu’s grip of the South West politics where he
nearly installed all the Governors.
He said, “Here in Lagos, you have over six million registered voters,
only about a million voted (in 2019 general elections); five million did
not vote.
“If I want to run for governor of Lagos, I will start now. I will
commission a study to know why those five million registered voters did
not vote; where do they go on election day? Then I will start visiting
them for the next four years. I will try and get just two million of
them to come and vote for me; I will defeat any godfather.
“The key is to go to the people. The card reader and the biometric
register have given us the tools to connect directly with the people.
“I assure you if you do that for the next four years, connecting with
the people; the tin godfather, you will retire him or her permanently.
But it is hard work; it requires three to four years of hard work. So,
if you want to run in 2023, you should start now.
“With about N2 billion; if you start, you see these guys with black
ties, they will give you the N2 billion.