What I wrote is true, I don't owe anyone any apology - El-Rufai insists
- Nasir El-Rufai has insisted he has no apologies regarding his memo to the president
- In a recent interview, he insisted that everything he wrote was true and he was standing by it
- The Kaduna governor also said that this was not his first or last memo to the presidency
When Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai wrote a memo to President Buhari criticizing some of the people around the president, many were surprised at the harshness of the memo.
El-Rufai however, has insisted he owes no one apology about the memo he wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari, recommending that some reforms be made.
In the memo, El-Rufai making reference to the President’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, said the people around Buhari were selfish and inexperienced.
An excerpt from the letter reads:
"The secretary to the government of the federation and the chief of staff do not have experience in public service, lack humility in addition to being insensitive and rude to virtually most of the party leaders, ministers and governors.
"The chief of staff is totally clueless about the APC and its internal politics at best as he was neither part of its formation nor a participant in the primaries, campaign, and elections.
"In summary, neither of them has the personality, experience, and the reach to manage your politics nationally or even regionally."
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Following the sending of the memo, Senator Shehu Sani, called for El-Rufai to be sanctioned. In a recent interview with Daily Trust however, El-Rufai said:
“I know Abba Kyari well, he will not disagree with what I wrote there. He knows it to be true and he is not hearing for the first time.
“Many people have complained about this, so I don’t think it will cause a strain in my relationship with the chief of staff because we have been friends for so many years. But anyone who feels he is upset because of what I have written, so be it.
"First of all, let me say that this is not the first memo that I have written to the president. From the time I began to interact politically with him since 2010, anytime I saw a situation requiring advice or change in direction, I usually went to discuss with him.
"I always said, ‘I will go and reduce it to writing so you can have a document to reflect upon and decide and guide your action.’
"This is not even the tenth memo I have written to the president. I have probably written more than 20 memos. I did this at various stages – from our days in the Congress for progressive Change (CPC), before the 2011 elections, after the 2011 elections, and during the merger process.
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"I have always felt that my duty to him as my political leader is to pick up what he doesn’t hear, because as a lower level person, I get to hear more about what is going on. And if I see things going wrong, I have a duty to go to him and say, ‘This is what I’ve heard, the facts I have established and my advice on the way forward.'
"They are all problem-solving memos, they identify the problems, analyse them and propose solutions. So this is the spirit of all my memoranda to the president from 2010 till date."
Meanwhile, Legit.ng recently reported that El-Rufai said that he encourages his subordinates to tell him the truth all the time.
The governor also said that the biggest danger to any government is sycophancy.
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