{"id":68820,"date":"2023-02-01T14:01:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=68820"},"modified":"2023-02-01T14:01:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:01:12","slug":"2023-election-aso-rock-elements-working-against-tinubus-victory-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/2023-election-aso-rock-elements-working-against-tinubus-victory-el-rufai\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Election: Aso Rock \u2018Elements\u2019 Working Against Tinubu\u2019s victory \u2013 El-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Wednesday, revealed that some people in Aso Rock Villa are working to frustrate the victory of All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, during this month\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201dI believe there are elements in the Villa that want us to lose the election because they didn\u2019t get their way; they had their candidate. Their candidate did not win the primaries,\u201d El-Rufai said while featuring on Channels TV\u2019s Sunrise Daily.<\/p>\n<p>The governor explained that those working against Tinubu\u2019s victory were those whose the APC presidential flagbearer defeated their candidates during the party\u2019s presidential primary election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are trying to get us to lose the election, and they are hiding behind the president\u2019s desire to do what he thinks is right. I will give two examples: this petroleum subsidy, which is costing the country trillions of Naira, was something that we all agreed would be removed.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, I had a discussion with the president and showed him why it had to go. Because how can you have a capital budget of N200b for federal roads and then spend N2 Trillion on petroleum subsidy? This was a conversation I had with the president in 2021 when the subsidy thing started rising. He was convinced. We left. It changed. Everyone in the government agreed, and it changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second example I will give is this currency redesign. You have to understand the president. People are blaming the Governor of the Central Bank for the currency redesign, but No. You have to go back and look at the first outing of Buhari as president. He did this; the Buhari, Idiagbon regime changed our currency and did it in secrecy with a view to catching those that are stashing away illicit funds. It is a very good intention. The president has his right. But doing it at this time within the allotted time does not make any political or economic sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Wednesday, revealed that some people in Aso Rock Villa are working to frustrate the victory of All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, during this month\u2019s election.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":68821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,624],"tags":[9174,10156,10133],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-68820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-politics","tag-2023-election","tag-gov-nasir-el-rufai","tag-senator-ahmed-bola-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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