BREAKING: El-Rufai alleges ongoing project to destroy opposition parties in Nigeria
El-Rufai said, “There are internal mercenaries in the PDP that have been hired, paid or otherwise motivated to destroy the party,” he said, predicting that “the party is on its way to the grave, and it is most unfortunate.”
He also said similar moves were being made towards the Labour Party, citing a conversation with Peter Obi, where Obi admitted, “I don’t know what is happening in the party that I contested for president.”
El-Rufai further stated that “there seems to be a project to destroy all the opposition political parties” and insisted that the only viable option for the opposition is to unite and form a broad platform.
“We have to put aside our differences and create a broad platform that will do the driving of the military again because we are there almost again,” he said.
El-Rufai made the statement yesterday, when he spoke as a panellist at a national conference on strengthening democracy in Nigeria, organised by the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development (Centre LSD).