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Today’s Headlines: El-Rufai not a religious bigot, critics are jealous– FFK, Otunba Soname Resigns From IMC

El-Rufai not a religious bigot, critics are jealous – Fani-Kayode

Femi Fani-Kayode, on Thursday, said the recent comment made by Nasir El-Rufai on Muslim-Muslim ticket does not make the former governor of Kaduna a religious bigot or a terrorist.

Fani-Kayode threw his weight behind El-Rufai after the former governor was captured speaking on how Muslim-Muslim ticket helped the APC retain power in Kaduna as well as influence President Bola Tinubu’s victory in the 2023 presidential election.

In the video, El-Rufai, who was addressing a congregation of Muslim clerics (In Hausa) in Kaduna, had said, “We successfully did it in Kaduna (Muslim-Muslim ticket) and it has now been replicated all over the country.

Reacting to the criticisms directed at El-Rufai, Fani-Kayode said critics are only jealous of the ex-governor.

The ex-minister of aviation said: “When Nasir El Rufai, Bello Matawalle and Yahaya Bello took President Muhammadu Buhari to court and defeated him over the illegal and ill-fated cash grab/new notes policy they were considered to be heroes and the entire world commended them.

Otunba Soname Resigns From IMC

Proprietor of Remo Stars Football Club of Ikenne, Otunba Adekunle Soname OFR, has resigned his appointment with the Interim Management Committee of the Nigeria Premier Football League.

In a letter dated 23 May 2023 and addressed to the NFF President, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, Otunba Soname wrote: “Let this letter serve as my official resignation from the Interim Management Committee of the Nigeria Premier Football League effective immediately.

“While thanking you for the opportunity to serve on the committee, I wish the Nigeria Football Federation and the Interim Management Committee of the Nigeria Premier Football League all the very best.”

NFF President, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau has since accepted the resignation and thanked Otunba Soname for his robust efforts in the IMC and his continuing contributions to the growth of Nigeria Football.

I have come back to restructure APC in Osun – Aregbesola

A former Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola has stated that he has come back to restructure the All Progressives Congress, APC in Osun State.

The former two term governor of Osun State who maintained that he did not offend anybody also sought forgiveness from persons who felt aggrieved by him.

Aregbesola made this known on Wednesday as residents of the state and members of the Osun APC welcomed him back to the state.

At the event, which was held at the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo, Aregbesola explained that it was unfortunate that ‘some people’ mismanaged the affairs of the APC and ran it aground.

He said he had in 2019 called for the unity of the party with a warning that failure to unite different interest groups in the party would not produce any good result.

In his words, “I am here today to seek restructuring of the party. I didn’t offend anybody, but whoever feels that we offended him or her should forgive us.

“We seek forgiveness from those who thought we offended and those who sought our downfall.

“We seek forgiveness from those who are smearing our image, though we never offended them.

“However, we are here for the restructuring of the party. That is why we are begging anybody that feels that we offended him or her to forgive us.”

Muslim-Muslim Ticket Is Fraud, Says Northern Forum Spokesman

The National Director of Publici­ty of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), Hakeem Baba Ahmed, has said that Muslim-Muslim ticket is a fraud.

Baba Ahmed stated this during an interview on Chan­nels TV’s Politics Today, while commenting on APC’s zoning of Senate Presidency.

He said the legislators should be allowed to decide whom they want to lead them.

According to him, the North Western region should be al­lowed to produce the next Sen­ate President, saying their votes brought President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to power.

Commenting on the Mus­lim-Muslim ticket in Kaduna State, he said, “What did he (El-Rufai) do for the Muslims? He demolished their houses. Nine­ty-five percent of the houses and buildings he demolished belong to Muslims. So for what value has Muslim-Muslim. It’s fraud.

“Politicians have poisoned faith. They took it, made it a polit­ical capital. And they are fooling everybody. The earlier we open our eyes, the better. They are de­stroying the political process by bringing faith into it. They are deceiving people into thinking that they represent a class, which is not true.”