EXTRA: ‘Would you say this if your father was in government?’ — el-Rufai’s wife tackles son over Tinubu

Hadiza, the wife of Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna, has tackled Basir, her son, for criticising President Bola Tinubu’s administration. 

The two members of el-Rufai’s family were tackling each other on X on Tuesday after Bashir said “a mental illness” was “permeating” Tinubu’s media team over the presidency’s recent attack on former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

On Sunday, Obasanjo described the 2023 elections as a “travesty” and posited that Nigeria must appoint new, credible leaders for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) with short tenure to prevent corruption and re-establish trust in the institution.

The presidency felt insulted by Obasanjo’s remarks and questioned the former president’s moral ground to make such a statement.

Bayo Onanuga, spokesperson to President Bola Tinubu, said Obasanjo presided over the most fraudulent election in Nigeria’s history.

Onanuga added that subsequent administrations have been battling the “poor choices in economic management made” during the former president’s tenure.

But in his post, Bashir described Tinubu’s media team as “ineffectual clowns” for attacking Obasanjo when “inflation is at 33 percent”.

The post gathered several comments, one of which was from Hadiza.

The former Kaduna first lady asked Bashir if he would “be saying this if your father were part of this government?”

Underneath, Bashir replied that his father “would have resigned by now due to the failure of the administration”.

He added that El-Rufai would have “dissociated” himself from the government.