Former governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-rufai and presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the last election, Mr. Peter Obi on Saturday in London, held a strategic meeting after attending Cambridge University Symposium.
The meeting between the two political heavyweights, which is currently rattling president Bola Tinubu’s camp, News Band understand, revolves around ongoing discussion about political coalition ahead of 2027 general elections.
This medium reported in March that El-rufai dumped the All Progressive Congress (APC) for the Social Democratic Party.
He cited a growing misalignment between his personal values and the current direction of the APC as the primary reason for his decision.
El-rufai expressed disappointment with APC leadership, accusing the party of straying from the progressive ideals of its founding members.
“As a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), I have fond memories of working with other compatriots to negotiate the merger of political parties that created the APC. Since 2013, I have hoped that my personal values and those of the APC will continue to align until I choose to retire from politics.
“Developments in the last two years confirm that those who currently control and run the APC do not desire to acknowledge, much less address, the party’s unhealthy situation. I have raised concerns in private and, more recently, in public regarding the party’s capricious trajectory. Therefore, at this point in my political journey, I have come to the conclusion that I must seek another political platform to pursue the progressive values I cherish.
“Founders rightly feel attached towards institutions they helped create, but one must be pragmatic enough to admit when a divergence appears unbridgeable. I have diligently served the APC and made my contributions to its viability as a political platform, but I recognize that the party has since strayed and left me stuck in the vision of its well-meaning founding fathers and mothers. As a loyal party man, I worked to help secure the APC’s election victories in 2015, 2019 and 2023. I was one of the many governors elected on the party’s platform in 2015 and 2019 that stood for certain democratic and progressive principles to advance nation-building,” he stated.
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