The governor of Kaduna state, Mallam El Rufai’s failed attempt to force President Muhammadu Buhari out office during the President’s medical leave in London is now a subject of investigation by the Nigerian government, with Ms Hadiza Bala Usman, the Managing Director of The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) who was fingered for making available funds used to bride APC chieftains, is under internal probe.
It is bizzare to note, that the ambition of El-Rufai to be the vice President of Nigeria after his failed calculation, after his payng APC bigwigs will persuaded President Buhari to step down because of his medical challenges, but the financial records of the NPA under the management of Mrs Hadiza Bala Usman is now under scrutiny for misappropriation.
The MD of NPA, who once served as Governor El Rufai’s Chief of Staff and a former BBOG’s coordinator is alleged to have given $25,000 to top APC chieftains to support El Rufai’s emergence as Vice President.
These APC consipirators will exact undue pressure to ailing President to resign or if their second option works out, where under President Buhari dies from his illness. President Buhari’s extended medical leave which lasted for over 50 days against the planned 10 days raised a lot of questions about the President’s ability to return to office. While there were rumours that he was in coma after a series of operations, there were even rumours of his passing away and a conspiracy by the Presidency to conceal his health status from Nigerians as much as they could.
The over ambitious El Rufai and his former Chief of Staff had seen the President’s ill health as an opportunity to further push the former’s Political Career. Mrs Hadiza Bala Usman who was appointed by President Buhari, met with several APC chieftains at the request of El Rufai and reportedly gave $25,000 each to many of them to influence the picking of El Rufai as the Vice President should President Buhari fail to return to Nigeria and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was sworn in as President.
This grand plan would see El Rufai contest for the 2019 Presidency as it would be widely accepted in the APC Northern Nigeria that the north had not completed its 8 year tenure. President Buhari’s return marked the end of El Rufai’s scheming and dashing his hopes, the enraged Kaduna state governor wrote a lengthy memo to criticise the President’s policies weeks after the President returned.
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