'I don’t care' - El-Rufai speaks from SDP Secretariat amid defection rumour

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nasir El-Rufai paid a second visit to the national secretariat of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) on Wednesday, March 20.

A source who spoke to Tribune Online said the visit by the former governor of Kaduna state and ex-minister of the federal capital territory was to consult with the opposition party's leadership, led by Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam.

Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam, the national chairman of the SDP has on different occasions described El-Rufai as a close pal with a high political degree adding the party needs a transformational leader like him.

Gabam advised Nigerians to put aside religious, political, regional and ethnic differences to move the country forward.

He said this was what the country presently needed amid numerous challenges from insecurity, kidnapping, hunger, inflation and joblessness, among others.

But a video tweeted by AIT on Thursday morning disclosed that the governor had visited the opposition secretariat amid the rumour that he was planning to dump the ruling APC for another party.

During the photo section of the video, someone was telling the photographer not to upload it on Twitter (now X), but El-Rufai was heard saying, "Let them upload it; I don't care."