{"id":122406,"date":"2025-09-22T17:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=122406"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:19:57","slug":"life-presidency-tinubu-wont-stay-beyond-2031-onanuga-slams-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/life-presidency-tinubu-wont-stay-beyond-2031-onanuga-slams-el-rufai\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Presidency: Tinubu won\u2019t stay beyond 2031, Onanuga slams El-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on information and strategy, Bayo Onanuga has dismissed claims by Mallam Nasir El-Rufai that the President is tilting towards authoritarianism and perpetuity in office.<\/div>\n
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Pointblanknews.com over the weekend reported that the former governor of Kaduna alleged that President Tinubu might end up as another \u2018Paul Biya\u2019 if he is not kicked out of office in 2027.<\/div>\n
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Biya, 92, has been in power since 1982, and recently said he will seek re-election in October in a bid to extend his 43 years on the saddle.<\/div>\n
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In a post on X on Sunday, Onanuga said el-Rufai has been making \u201cunfounded claims and speculations\u201d about Tinubu.<\/div>\n
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He said el-Rufai seems to have realised the futility of the attempts by his associates in his new party to stop Tinubu\u2019s re-election bid.<\/div>\n
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Onanuga said the \u201cplot is proving to be unattainable\u201d and is \u201ca mission doomed to fail\u201d.<\/div>\n
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He added that el-Rufai was unsettled by the \u201cgrand reception\u201d Tinubu received during his visit to Kaduna last Friday.<\/div>\n
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According to him, the show of support contradicted el-Rufai\u2019s claim that the north has abandoned the president.<\/div>\n
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\u201cInstead, he resorted to spreading further unfounded stories, including the claim that President Tinubu intends to become a \u2018life president\u2019 after 2027 \u2014 a speculation that is baseless and absurd,\u201d Onanuga wrote.<\/div>\n
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\u201cPresident Tinubu is a democrat who does not intend to stay in office beyond May 28, 2031, when re-elected in 2027.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Onanuga said Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna, may need to reach out to el-Rufai.<\/div>\n
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\u201cEl-Rufai could benefit from some professional counselling to steer him away from his recent hallucinations and political fabrications on Tinubu and 2027,\u201d he added.<\/div>\n
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