Rights activist and lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has criticised former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, accusing him of double standards in his recent political posturing.
In a post on his official X handle on Tuesday sighted by AFRIPOST, Adeyanju said while El-Rufai had proven to be effective in opposition politics, he should not present himself as a saint after admitting to paying bandits during his tenure as governor.
“Though El-Rufai is extremely good at this opposition thing and I must commend him for it but he used his own mouth to say he paid bandits money as governor but now acting like a saint. I hate 419 politics,” Adeyanju wrote.
The Former Kaduna State Governor had insisted that the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) is secretly paying bandits across northern states to free kidnap victims.
El-Rufai also dismissed responses from ONSA and the Kaduna State Government to his Sunday television interview as “fake, predictable hot air” aimed at deflecting from their failures.