‘Nigeria cannot afford to waste El-Rufai’s knowledge, experience’ – Makarfi

A erstwhile Kaduna State governorship candidate, Hayatuddeen Lawal Makarfi, has said the acquisition and betterment credentials of erstwhile Kaduna State Governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai are excessively invaluable for Nigeria to discarded due to the fact that of governmental differences.

Makarfi, who contested the Kaduna governorship predetermination successful 2023, made the telephone successful a connection portion describing El-Rufai arsenic 1 of the astir misunderstood governmental figures of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic.

He alleged that El-Rufai’s prolonged detention was politically motivated, claiming that determination had been rumours that the erstwhile politician was being kept successful isolation until after the May 29, 2027 inauguration.

“Nigeria needs experienced leaders who are consenting to instrumentality hard decisions and instrumentality reforms, particularly astatine a clip erstwhile the state is facing superior economic, information and governance challenges.

“Nigeria’s concern successful Nasir El-Rufai is excessively important to beryllium discarded,” helium said.

He traced El-Rufai’s vocation from his acquisition astatine Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, and further studies astatine the University of London and Harvard Kennedy School of Gove...