{"id":59487,"date":"2017-09-08T17:36:06","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T16:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=59487"},"modified":"2017-09-08T17:36:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T16:36:06","slug":"el-rufai-blasts-alhassan-fails-recall-called-buhari-old-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/el-rufai-blasts-alhassan-fails-recall-called-buhari-old-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Rufai Blasts Alhassan, Fails To Recall He Once Called Buhari &#8220;Too Old and should disappear&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai says supporters of<br \/>\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari were not in support of his choice of Aisha<br \/>\nAlhassan as a minister.<\/p>\n<p>After a meeting with the president\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1765972049\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span>, the governor said Alhassan<br \/>\nhas never been a supporter of Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>He said he was not surprised that the minister openly endorsed former<br \/>\nVice-President Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai alleged that the minister voted against Buhari in the<br \/>\npresidential primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>But El-Rufai failed to recall that he had once had a scathing remark<br \/>\nagainst Buhari when he accused him of being the only senior military<br \/>\nofficer who failed all Military exams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pa Muhammadu Buhari (72) is the only Nigerian senior military officer<br \/>\nthat failed all the senior examinations in the history of Nigerian<br \/>\nMilitary.<br \/>\nIf you check the official names of officers likes of IBB, Idiagbon, Diya,<br \/>\nDanjuma, Akhigbe, Abdulsalami, Aikhomu. etc you see a suffix, FSS, Psc,<br \/>\nMNi., Pa Muhammadu Buhari has none. He failed the Command and Staff<br \/>\nCollege exams and all other Military examinations (Psc means Pass staff<br \/>\ncollege),&#8221; El-Rufai was quoted to have said. He has not denied those<br \/>\nquotes.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, El-Rufai in an interview with Journalist said \u201cI was 25 years old<br \/>\nwhen Buhari and Babangida were Heads of State and I am now 50 and they<br \/>\nstill want to be Head of State. I don\u2019t understand that. I don\u2019t<br \/>\nunderstand that at all and I call on the young people of Nigeria to take<br \/>\ntheir future into their hands and ensure that in the next election, they<br \/>\nvote for a new generation of leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have great respect for President Babangida. I think he has done a lot<br \/>\nfor Nigeria. You won\u2019t take that from him. He has made his mistakes like<br \/>\nevery human being, but people like President Babangida and General Buhari<br \/>\nshould just disappear. They should give way to a new set of people with<br \/>\nnew ideas. Young people preferably,\u201d El-Rufai said.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking to reporters at the Presidential Villa today, the turn-coat<br \/>\nEl-Rufai said \u201cThe minister of women affairs, Jummai Alhassan, was never<br \/>\nin the Buhari camp. She did not support our candidates during the national<br \/>\nconvention, she didn\u2019t vote for Buhari during the primary,\u201d el-Rufai said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the largeness of the president\u2019s heart and to encourage women, he<br \/>\npicked her as a minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat she has tried to do in Taraba (Alhassan contested the 2015<br \/>\ngovernorship election on the platform of APC) earned her being nominated<br \/>\nas a minister. Many in Buhari camp did not support it but he overrode us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer comments are not surprising. She has never been a supporter of the<br \/>\npresident. She has never believed in Buhari\u2019s ideology. So, I am not<br \/>\nsurprised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor maintained that she was entitled to her opinion and added<br \/>\nthat it was at the discretion of the president to either retain or replace<br \/>\nher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a Nigerian, she has every right to express her views and support<br \/>\nwhoever she wants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I am saying is that Nigerians should not be surprised or shocked.<\/p>\n<p>This has always been her position because from time she has never<br \/>\nsupported Buharism or what Buhari stands for. Being part of Buhari<br \/>\ngovernment is a different thing, because government sets policies and if<br \/>\nyou are a minister you execute the policies. You can execute those<br \/>\npolicies while pursuing a different brand of politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The minister was at the presidential villa in Abuja\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1765972050\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Thursday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0but did<br \/>\nnot meet Abba Kyari, Buhari\u2019s chief of staff, whom she had gone to see.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai says supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari were not in support of his choice of Aisha Alhassan as a minister. 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