Kaduna APC defends el-Rufai’s comment on stopping Lagos godfatherism

The All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State has defended
Governor Nasir el-Rufai’s comment on stopping godfatherism in Lagos
State.

Kaduna APC said in a statement by its Assistant Publicity
Secretary, Salisu Tanko Wusono, that it was worrisome that a state
like Lagos which boasts of over six million registered voters would
record a voter turnout of about one million.

The statement read in part, “The Kaduna State chapter of the All
Progressives Congress wishes to identify with the Kaduna State
governor and support his opinion on why every Nigerians should
ensure massive participation in electoral process, because it is
worrisome to see a situation where only one million voters would
turn out to vote out of acclaimed six million registered
voters.”

“Therefore, we are of the opinion that what the Kaduna State
Governor said was just clarion advice that all hands should be on
deck to ensure that every registered voters in Nigeria are
encouraged to come out to vote on election days.”

The party said the governor did not insult the APC leader in
Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, or any other person as was being
insinuated in the media.

It said, “Having found out from our interactions with many
stakeholders, we discovered that Malam Nasir el-Rufai did not
insult Asiwaju Bola Tinubu or anybody for that matter at the
occasion rather the Kaduna state governor was only encouraging all
registered voters to vote at every election so as to downplay the
role of godfatherism in Nigeria politics just as it were in the
recently concluded general elections where many political
godfathers were sent out of business.”

The governor had said over the weekend that the godfather of
Lagos could be defeated the same way he did so in his state.

His comment has, however, drawn the ire of loyalists of
Tinubu.

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