{"id":16965,"date":"2025-09-10T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=16965"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:01:26","slug":"acute-political-amnesia-el-rufais-enduring-affliction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/acute-political-amnesia-el-rufais-enduring-affliction\/","title":{"rendered":"Acute Political Amnesia: El-Rufai\u2019s Enduring Affliction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has noted with amusement the latest outbursts of former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, he has lived up to his reputation as Nigeria\u2019s undisputed master of double-speak.<\/p>\n<p>From branding President Buhari \u201cunelectable\u201d before riding on his back to power, to praising President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as \u201cindispensable\u201d before turning against him, El-Rufai\u2019s politics has been one long catalogue of contradictions.<\/p>\n<p>He once hailed Obasanjo as his \u201cpolitical father,\u201d only to later call him a dictator.<\/p>\n<p>He accused Atiku of attempted bribery, yet returned years later to court him as an ally.<\/p>\n<p>He even admitted paying bandits in 2016, only to thunder in 2020 that \u201cKaduna will never negotiate with bandits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The thread is clear: El-Rufai is guided not by principle, but by convenience. His handlers should be alarmed that he continues to exhibit symptoms of acute political amnesia &#8211; a condition that worsens anytime he sees a microphone or television camera.<\/p>\n<p>For the sake of public sanity, we recommend a mock prescription: rest from politics, detox from microphones, and a steady daily dose of consistency. Until then, Nigerians should treat his pontifications with the disdain they deserve.<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu remains focused, steadfast, and undistracted by serial double-speakers whose only true ideology is opportunism.<\/p>\n<p>Mogaji (Hon) Seye Oladejo.<br \/>\nLagos APC Spokesman.<br \/>\n10\/09\/25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has noted with amusement the latest outbursts of former Kaduna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16966,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions\/16966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}