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El-Rufai the godfather slayer

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, is something of an enigma. To some he is a straight talker given to shooting from the lips. Others would say he shoots first and reflects later – thus pushing him into the category of loose cannons.

“Here in Lagos, you have over six million registered voters, only about a million voted ; five million did not vote. If I want to run for governor of Lagos, I will start now. I will commission a study to know why those five million registered voters did not vote; where do they go on Election Day? The governor’s position implies that these ‘overambitious’ politicians were starting to manoeuvre towards the next electoral contest too early – given that the president hasn’t been inaugurated for his second tenure.

While the governor would understandably want to claim credit for winning the governorship polls in Kaduna in 2015 all by himself, another school of thought argues that back then he wasn’t a political giant or giant-killer who could have triumphed on the basis of his popularity. If anything, voter apathy was driven by a complex mix of factors: among them disenchantment with the political class – godfathers, godsons and godfather slayers. In many places the outcome of the presidential election was a depressant to those who expected a different result. The upshot was they chose to vote with their feet. Others simply assumed that their votes wouldn’t count during the governorship contest that followed, so didn’t bother to come out.

 

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