Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, former governor of the state of Kaduna, has claimed that some people paid money to ensure ministerial appointments in the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
The-Rufai made this claim during a recent interview with the BBC Hausa service.
Speaking again in the ministerial desais in the government of Tinubu, El-Rufai said he never played the position, however, he revealed that he knew some people who paid to be appointed ministers.
“I know those who even paid money to be named as ministers,” he said.
The former governor, while explaining his decision to leave the Congress of all progressives (APC) for the Social Democratic Party (SDP), El-Rufai said he sought the approval of former President Muhammadu Buhari before moving.
“The APC has been derailing, the part is no longer fulfilling its founding principles. Everyone is working for yourself, looking for money. The government is marketed, everything is priced.
“Justice has remained at bay, those who worked for the party were ignored instead of being compensated. If there is any position or appointment, they give it to a lake child, etc.
“That is why we have been talking, we talked, we said that this is not the party we know. The party is dead. I said that the only option is to meet with Pastor Tunde Bakare, because it dragged me to APC. It took me to Buhari. I did not join the APC due to Buhari, it was Pastor Bakare who dragged me to APC, and courtesy demands that he should let him know.
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“Buhari too, I told him that I was going to leave the party, I looked for his blessings and prayers. He said he has given me his blessings and prayers. We are the ones who were in politics, he (Buhari) is now the father of the earth and has been praying for us, so what is left?
“I have publicly denounced my membership membership, they can go and cling to the party, they can eat the party alone as the food, we have given ourselves.”
The-Rufai dismissed the claims that the APC left to avoid being expelled, stating that he was neglected inside the party.
“That would have been much easier for me, but look at it, as I kept saying, I did not leave the party, it is the party that left me. Why did he leave me? First, I was marginalized, not involved in all the activities of the party. It is not that they invited me and they refused to honor the invitation, I was completely marginalized.
“Secondly, what we had planned to implement when we form the government is not what is being implemented,” he said.