Atiku cannot compete with Buhari-El Rufai

What I told Atiku in 2014 in Dubai
about Buhari - El-Rufai
- Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state
says the resignation of Atiku Abubakar
from APC is not a threat to President
Muhammadu Buhari
- El-Rufai says he once told Atiku in 2014
that no northerner can beat Buhari in an
election in Nigeria
- He also reveals that no governor on the
platform of the APC is going with Atiku
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state
has a message for the just-defected
Atiku Abubakar and that is that he can
never stand as a threat to President
Muhammadu Buhari in any future
election in Nigeria.
The governor added that in 2014, he
told Atiku in Dubai that Buhari was the
most popular northerner that can
become president and no other person
from the region can beat him in an
election.
Atiku was, until Friday, November 24, a
member of the All Progressives Congress
(APC). He dramatically resigned with a
statement giving reasons for his
decision.
Even though he has not officially
declared the party of his choice ahead of
2019, there are speculations that he may
likely join the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP).
El-Rufai, while reacting to Atiku’s
resignation from the APC, said even if
he is given the presidential ticket of the
PDP in 2019, he cannot defeat Buhari.
El-Rufai, a former friend of Atiku, said
the latter’s resignation is good for the
APC.
Speaking at the State House where he
joined Buhari in observing juma'at at
the Presidential Villa mosque, the
governor said the APC knew that Atiku
would quit the party in December, 2019.
El-rufai said, unfortunately, no APC
governor would join Atiku in his
journey as, according to him, Atiku is
known as a serial defector and
presidential aspirant.
LETSKNOW earlier reported that the PDP
said Atiku Abubakar had suddenly seen
the light and this is why he has resigned
from the ruling All Progressives
Congress (APC), the opposition Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) has said.
The party, which lost election in 2015,
said the former vice president’s
decision to leave the APC necessitated
by the fact that he has seen the
difference.