Shamshudeen Abdulmumin
In the grand and often turbulent theatre of Nigerian politics, there strides a figure both familiar and infamous — whose silver tongue weaves intricate tapestries of audacity and artifice, crafting illusions so deftly entwined with half-truths that even the most discerning can be momentarily beguiled. This is the personage of Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, erstwhile Governor of Kaduna State, once hailed as a visionary technocrat, now unmasked as a weary architect of revisionism, ensnared in the thickets of his own delusions, desperately clutching at the fraying strands of a relevance long slipping into oblivion.
El-Rufai’s latest outburst, in which he arrogantly claims authorship of all the projects recently inaugurated by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during his triumphant visit to Kaduna, is not only false — it is a masterclass in self-deception and historical distortion. To suggest that the state-of-the-art Vocational Institutes, the fully equipped Bola Ahmed Tinubu Specialist Hospital, and the innovative Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Buses initiative were either conceived or completed under his administration is a lie so bold, so brazen, and so contemptuous of documented fact, that it demands a rebuttal not just for record’s sake, but as an act of civic duty.
