{"id":222088,"date":"2020-05-31T14:38:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T13:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=222088"},"modified":"2020-05-31T14:41:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T13:41:16","slug":"tinubu-not-my-man-we-have-our-differences-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=222088","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu not my man, we have our differences &#8211; El-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has admitted to having differences with Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai, who didn\u2019t state the kind of differences disclosed that he\u2019s not Tinubu \u201cman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He made made the disclosure during an online seminar to mark the 63rd birthday of the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai said: \u201cI want to congratulate my brother, Ogbeni (Aregbesola), on his birthday. You know I\u2019m your man any day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not Asiwaju\u2019s man and you are Asiwaju\u2019s man, but I am your man any day. Asiwaju and I have differences but you and I have no differences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are insinuations in certain quarters that both El-Rufai and Tinubu are nursing the ambition to become Nigeria\u2019s next president in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the speculations which have been going on for a while now, both Tinubu and El-Rufai haven\u2019t come out to either deny or admit to such claim.<\/p>\n<p>There is also the believe in certain quarters that Tinubu\u2019s silence over the speculation may have been because he has been allegedly sidelined by the President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has admitted to having differences with Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC. El-Rufai, who didn\u2019t state the kind of differences disclosed that he\u2019s not Tinubu \u201cman.\u201d He made made the disclosure during an online seminar to mark the 63rd birthday of the Minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,8289,41,5730],"class_list":["post-222088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-apc","tag-bola-ahmad-tinubu","tag-buhari","tag-el-rufai-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}