Crisis in LP, PDP, NNPP funded by present govt – El-Rufai

The barrage of crisis rocking the major opposition parties across the country is being sponsored by the government of the day, a former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has alleged.

El-Rufai while speaking at the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) on Tuesday, March 11, said the crisis witnessed in Labour Party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) is sponsored by the government led by President Bola Tinubu.

He said, “The crisis in the Labour Party is contrite and funded by the government of the day, everyone knows it. Jumping from one court to another is all designed to distract the party leadership from focusing on their whole functions. The same thing is happening in the PDP, even in the NNPP.

“They have been designed for distraction by people who have been resourced to go and cause problems in NNPP,” the former Kaduna governor said.

This claim by El-Rufai comes barely 24 hours after he dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the SDP.

The former governor had said that the resigned from the party because activities by its leaders do not align with the ideology on which the APC was founded.

Further reacting to reports that Rabiu Kwankwaso, a founding member of the NNPP had been sacked by a faction of the party, El-Rufai said the crisis are coordinated to disorient leadership activities.

He said, “The last thing I read about NNPP was that one faction of the party has expelled Kwankwaso and the seating governor. When you see things like that you’ll know it’s contrived crisis. Which party sacks a seating governor and that is the only governor they have.

“You’ll know it is contrived; I don’t have the details and I cannot mention names,” El-Rufai stated.