Former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has clarified his views on governance further, claiming he is not a member of the pretending political class.
He made a comparison between Nollywood actors and public officials.
Days prior, the former governor and leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress stated that his views on the administration would not alter if he were still in the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
Using the hashtag #irahabib, Ira Habib, an X user, praised the APC leader on Friday.
He said that after reading one of El-Rufai’s books, he recognised the former governor was no impostor. He also said that any politician who appoints El-Rufai to his cabinet genuinely wants Nigeria to advance.
“After reading El-Rufai’s book, Accidental Public Servant,” I concluded that no politician would appoint #elrufai to their cabinet unless they truly wanted to advance this nation. He has no idea how to act like that,” #irahabib tweeted.
In response, the APC leader expressed gratitude to the tweep for his praise.

However, he further solidified his position on actual government by tweeting, “I honestly don’t know how to pretend.” Not everyone is cut out to be a Nollywood actor in government.
In another tweet, El-Rufai cited a quotation from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair that highlighted the distinction between government and opposition.
“What you say counts when you are opposed. What you do counts in governance. And it’s far simpler to say than to accomplish,” the tweet said.
El-Rufai made headlines recently when he lamented the absence of active party structures and internal democracy inside the party.
“I don’t recognise the APC anymore.” Two years have passed since the last meeting of any party organ, including the NEC and caucus. It’s a zero-man show, and you don’t even know whether it’s a one-man performance,” he said.
Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Policy Communications, Daniel Bwala, responded to this remark on behalf of the presidency, advising El-Rufai to leave his “vengeance mission.”
El-Rufai’s comment was denounced by Bwala as being unpatriotic, and he added that the opposition finds him appealing because of this.
“They stem from a desire for vengeance rather than patriotism. The opposition views one aspect of retaliation as a legitimate recruitment technique.
“You don’t need a vengeance quest or all these melodramatic acts, in my opinion.
“Come back and settle whatever you believe to be your complaints like the respectable man you are,” Bwala wrote on Thursday in a tweet posted under his X handle.