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The 2023 Labour Party vice-presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has said that former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai should be questioned over his allegation that the Federal Government was paying bandits.
Datti Baba-Ahmed made this remark on Tuesday while appearing as a guest on Politics Today, a programme on Channels Television.
He also dismissed the rebuttal issued by the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, Nuhu Ribadu, regarding El-Rufai’s comment.
“If the so-called office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, would take this statement with levity, then Nuhu Ribadu was never a policeman; he is not a qualified lawyer; he should not be in that office,” he said.
According to him, El-Rufai should be writing statements to the police and to the courts.
The Eastern Updates recalls that El-Rufai had alleged that the Federal Government and Kaduna State were paying a monthly allowance to bandits and sending food to them in the name of non-kinetic measures.
He described the move as a “kiss-the-bandits” policy.
In other news, Former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said that he would have resigned if he had been appointed a minister in President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
El-Rufai made the assertion in an interview with Channels TV on Sunday.
According to him, serving as a minister under President Tinubu was never his ambition, stating that Tinubu had begged him to join the cabinet but “later changed his mind.”
“I would have probably resigned if I was a minister in Tinubu’s government.
“I have no desire to be a minister. I don’t care what people are saying now. I have been a minister when I was much younger,” he said.
