PDP Fears Buhari More Than God, Says El-Rufai

A top member of the All Progressive Congress (APC) and a former
Minister of Nigeria's federal capital, Nasir el-Rufai, has declared
that members of the ruling Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) fear
General Muhammadu Buhari (ret.) more than they fear God.
Mr. El-Rufai made the statement while speaking in a radio interview in
Kaduna monitored online by SaharaReporters. He said, "They are always
in a rush to twist what Buhari said because they are afraid of him.
They try to do everything possible to paint the man black and they are
not even afraid that one day they will stand before God and account
for their action. That is why I said they are more scared of him than
they are scared of God because somebody that is scared of the day when
he will face God will not do certain things. He will not create a lie
and try to make it true. This is why I made that statement. And I
think people should be very careful and very wary of whatever the PDP
and its media say about General Buhari."
Mr. El Rufai added that the "PDP has become a virus that is infecting
and destroying the country because they are not doing anything
productive. They have changed our politics into that of ethnicity and
religion to divert attention from their incompetence, lack of capacity
and looting of the treasury. It has become a clear and present danger
to the existence of Nigeria as a nation and the prosperity of its
people."
In a separate development, SaharaReporters learnt that a group within
the APC coalition was pressuring Mr. El-Rufai to run for governorship
of his home state of Kaduna in 2015. We could not reach Mr. El-Rufaiby
phone to ascertain whether he had encouraged party members clamoring
for him to run in the governorship race.