Olusegun Ariyo
Former presidential aide, Reno Omokri has dismissed Nasir El-Rufai’s move to the Social Democratic Party (SDP), questioning his electoral influence and downplaying the significance of his departure from the All Progressives Congress (APC).
In a post on X, Omokri highlighted APC’s poor performance in Kaduna State under El-Rufai’s leadership during the 2023 elections.
He pointed out that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the presidential election, all three senatorial seats, and 10 out of 16 House of Representatives seats in the state, while the APC only secured four.
Omokri also noted that the APC barely won the gubernatorial election, edging out the PDP by just 10,806 votes.
“If Malam Nasir el-Rufai performed so woefully at the polls as an incumbent governor, why should anyone lose sleep over him leaving the APC for the SDP, which died in 1993 and has been in the mortuary pending burial in 2027?”
Omokri also took a scathing swipe at El-Rufai, referring to him as the “Butcher of Kaduna” and accusing him of complicity in the Southern Kaduna and Shiite crises.
He sarcastically wished El-Rufai luck in his “fourth political party since 1999”, suggesting that any state that wants to experience the same turmoil as Southern Kaduna under his tenure could support the SDP in 2027.
El-Rufai, who recently resigned from the APC and declared his allegiance to the SDP, has yet to respond to Omokri’s remarks.
However, his defection has sparked widespread political discussions ahead of the 2027 general elections.
