Former All Progressives Congress, APC, National Vice Chairman Hilliard Eta has declared that there is nothing special about former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai.

Eta suggested that El-Rufai opted to join the move to create a coalition against President Bola Tinubu because he was not appointed as a minister by the current administration.

Featuring AIT Focus Nigeria, the APC chieftain cautioned those behind the coalition because Tinubu is the master of forming a coalition.

El-Rufai, former presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, and Labour Party, Peter Obi, have been spearheading the formation of a coalition.

Last week, the trio and other stakeholders of the coalition met to make far-reaching decisions regarding the movement.

Confirming the meeting, El-Rufai had declared that the coalition will remove Tinubu from power in 2027.

However, Eta said: “Most of them were once friends of the present president and people like El-Rufai thought he could become Minister under Asiwaju.

“The question you ask is that If El-Rufai was Minister at the time, would he be doing coalition today?
I’m very sure he would be presenting his report card to Nigerians at this time in his ministry or not.

“Let me tell El-Rufai that people like us were more instrumental to the making of the president than him and if we could not be Ministers, there is nothing special about him.

“People like Kwankwaso and Aregbesola were all close allies of this man (Tinubu); these people are narrow-minded; they look only after themselves.

“When you quarrel and you go to form a coalition, just remember that this is the master of coalition forming, he has been in the trenches of forming coalition since the days of NADECO.

“What you are doing now is just a plaything for him; the truth of the matter is that what brings a lot of our people to politics is not enlightened; it’s self-preservation. If it has not come to you now what makes you think it can’t come to you later?

“Even if it does not come to you at all, if the country gets better, everybody gets better.”