Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna state, paid visits to Atiku Abubakar, Rauf Aregbesola and Tunde Bakare during the weekend.

 

The visits to Aregbesola, the former interior minister and ex-governor of Osun; and Bakare, founder of the Citadel Global Community Church (formerly known as Latter Rain Assembly); were in Lagos, while the visit to Abubakar, standard-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 election, was in Adamawa.

 

“After tonight’s Itfar (breaking of fast), I received in audience, former Governor of Kaduna State, @elrufai former Governor of Adamawa, Jibrilla Bindow and Musa Halilu, Dujima Adamawa. Our robust discussions were the dessert of the meal. -AA #RamadanKareem,” Abubakar shared on his X page.

 

El-Rufai, who served as governor on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has hinted at pitching his political tent elsewhere ahead of the 2027 presidential poll — after criticising the APC publicly.

 

The former Kaduna governor previously met with members of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) to “strategise ahead of the 2027 elections”.

 

In January, the APC in Osun expelled Aregbesola over anti-party activities after the Omoluabi Progressives, Aregbesola’s political group, quit the party.

 

Abubakar, a former vice-president and PDP chieftain, has spoken of building a coalition that would give the ruling APC a run for its money in the next presidential election.

 

See pictures from el-Rufai’s visits below.