Aisha Buhari Has Thrown Her Weight Behind El-Rufai’s Claims Of Aso Villa Saboteurs Sabotaging Tinubu

• El-Rufai accused “some elements in the [Aso] Villa” of working against the APC earlier on Wednesday.

• The first lady, an influential figure in the presidential villa, backed the accusation a few hours later.

• There have been various speculations in recent weeks that some people in the Buhari administration were working for the opposition.

Eko Hot Blog reports that First Lady Aisha Buhari has thrown his weight behind Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, after he accused some elements in President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration of working towards the failure of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the polls.

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He made the allegation during an appearance on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme, on Wednesday morning.

According to the Kaduna governor, the supposed saboteurs are angry that their candidate (a subtle hint at Vice President Yemi Osinbajo) lost the APC primary election to the party’s nominee, Bola Tinubu.

El-Rufai said those elements are therefore trying to make the party lose the presidential poll.

In a show of support, Mrs Buhari took to her official Instagram handle Wednesday afternoon to post the video of the Kaduna governor making the accusation.

The president’s wife captioned the video, “#longlivethefederalrepublicofnigeria.”

”I believe there are elements in the Villa that want us to lose the election because they didn’t get their way; they had their candidate. Their candidate did not win the primaries,” El-Rufai said in the short video.

“They are trying to get us to lose the election, and they are hiding behind the president’s desire to do what he thinks is right.”

The allegation comes about a week after the APC candidate, Bola Tinubu, suggested that there are saboteurs in the Buhari administration who were working with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

He alleged that the scarcity of fuel and new naira notes was engineered and targeted at hurting his candidacy.

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Tinubu, however, stopped short of criticising Buhari himself, clarifying that he only warned the president that he had bad actors in his administration.

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