Supporters of Obi are saying that El-Rufai would be shocked by the outcome of the 2023 elections.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna has attracted the ire of Nigerians on Twitter following his mockery of supporters of a presidential candidate, Peter Obi.
The incident began early on Monday when a tweep named Abdullahi Zarma took to Twitter to call for two million people to join the Kaduna rally for Obi who is the presidential candidate of the Labour Party.
Obi left the Peoples Democratic Party just before the party’s presidential primary in June, sensing he could not get the party’s presidential ticket with bigwigs such as former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Governor Nyesom Wike also in the running for it at the time.
Since Obi secured the Labour Party’s presidential ticket, his supporters have been holding rallies across the nation.
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However, reacting to the tweep’s statement on Monday, El-Rufai said he hopes Obi gets 200 people to join the rally.
El-Rufai added laughing emojis for emphasis.
“In Kaduna? Not Kaduna Twitter? I hope you get Two Hundred persons on the streets, including those ‘imports’ that can’t open their shops on Mondays, and came on overnight bus last night!! I jus’ dey laff, wallahi tallahi!!” El-Rufai wrote.
El-Rufai’s party, the All Progressives Congress, has the former governor of Lagos Bola Tinubu as its presidential candidate for 2023.
The Kaduna governor had denied being against the choice of former governor of Borno State Senator Kashim Shettima as the party’s vice-presidential candidate.
Supporters of Obi are saying that El-Rufai would be shocked by the outcome of the 2023 elections.