Nasir El-Rufai Is Not An Easy Man To Advice – Hakeem Baba-Ahmed

Nasir El Rufai

Former Special Adviser on Political Matters to President Bola Tinubu, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, has said that Nasir El-Rufai is a difficult person to advise. He recently had his say while speaking on Channels Television, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, El-Rufai should concentrate on clearing his name over corruption allegations because watching his friendship with Nuhu Ribadu become what it is now has been sad to watch.

He added that the several allegations surrounding the former governor should not be dismissed as political drama but tested in court.

His words, “If I were to advise El-Rufai, there are so few fronts that you’d fight, so try and limit the damage, focus your attention on getting yourself cleaned up on allegations that you stole money from the people…. Mallam El-Rufai by character is a very difficult person to advise…

I’d say that the simpler way to go about this is put all these allegations on the table.

They are legal issues, from the allegations of corruption against Mallam Nasir El-Rufai to the allegations that Mallam Nuhu Ribadu… to the allegation of imported, poisoned chemicals.

All these weighty issues must be brought at the disposal of the judicial process, and we must know what the truths or otherwise of these allegations are; we cannot sweep them on the grounds that this is politics, it’s not good enough,

I am extremely saddened by the development. I know both gentlemen and how deep their personal relationship was, and I see one of the poisonous elements of our politics.

If you can actually poison a relationship with this nature this deeply, then we are in very serious trouble… it is very saddening to see this relationship just simply degenerate to a point that their personal relationship is now so poisoned that nobody thinks about the consequences… we are dealing with a situation of two friends threatening to take legal action against each other.”

WOW.