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President Buhari Forced Me to Contest Kaduna Governorship – El-Rufai

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: April 7, 2016
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Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, said on Thursday that it was President Muhammadu Buhari that forced him to run for the governorship of Kaduna state.

According to him, without the encouragement he received from Buhari who was the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), he wouldn’t have been governor of Kaduna state.

He also said he would have lost the election if not for the card reader introduced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

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Speaking at the closing ceremony of the two-day Kaduna Investment Forum which held at the Umaru Musa Yar’adua Indoor Sports Hall, Murtala Square, Kaduna, the governor maintained that without the card reader, the People’s Democratic Party ( PDP ) would have robbed him of victory at the polls.
“It was President Muhammadu Buhari that forced me to contest for the governorship race of Kaduna State in revenge for persuading him to run the presidential race.

“If he had not asked me to run for the governorship, I wouldn’t have stood before you today as the governor of Kaduna State.

“It is the Buhari phenomenon that had swept away the PDP. Buhari is a man of integrity, a Nigerian leader whose name has not been found in the Panama documents,” he said.

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