Former Minority Leader, House of Representatives, Farouk Aliyu has said that some people are trying to ensure President Bola Tinubu does not win re-election.
He said that himself and other members of the ruling elite will not allow that to happen.
According to Aliyu, his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), is out to make sure that the opposition, including the coalition under the African Democratic Congress (ADC), does not see the light of the day.
While Aliyu claimed that the current government and the ruling party have no problem with opposition, he emphasised they will do everything possible to make sure the opposition do not rear their heads, adding, “that is politics.”
Aliyu made the remarks during an interview on Arise News. He stressed that the elite do not fight among themselves, that rather it is the masses that ignorantly kill themselves because of the elite.
“We used to be one family, one party, one people. You remember when all those people in, I mean, out of the APC now we all ganged up to bring down Goodluck Jonathan. That’s what happened,” he said.
“That’s what we did together, all of us. So certain people are, you know, going out after some script to make sure APC does not see the light of day, or Tinubu does not win his election, sadly, we will not allow that to happen because that’s politics.
“You see, I was the leader of the minority in the House of Reps. I was in the opposition. And when we were in the opposition, back from 2003 when I won election, that time, we opposed the government of the day, and we opposed constructively.
“We made sure we put them on their toes. So if, in the course of that, anybody…, look, there is no democracy without opposition, we have no problem with anybody trying to oppose us, absolutely no.
“In fact, look, we don’t want to be left just to ourselves because the country does not belong to APC. This country belongs to all of us. And those in the opposition are respected Nigerians. We respect them, we respect their opinion, but politically speaking, we shall do everything possible to make sure they don’t wear their heads.
“And I mean it, because, look, that’s politics, if, in the course of this political thing, whatever happens politically speaking, we don’t want insults, abuses and so on, because the elites are one and the same.
“You know, the honorable Farooq Adamu Aliyu will never be fighting honorable Emeka Nwajuba and so on,” he said.
He acknowledged that the elites are the people giving Nigeria major problems, adding that down below, the masses “will kill themselves because of us. Absolutely.
“You see at the down level, the masses still have not understood that at the level of elites, there is no Muslim or Christian, at the level of elite, we are not enemies.”
