National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu has told former Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai to stop distracting him.
The security chief revealed this on Monday in a statement he personally signed.
He said he is now preoccupied with the task of serving Nigerians and ensuring that President Bola Tinubu’s administration succeed, therefore he is too busy to be distracted.
Mr Ribadu was reacting to el-Rufai’s allegations that Ribadu was intimidating el-Rufai because of 2031 presidential ambition.
El-Rufai, in an Arise TV interview Monday night made several allegations against Tinubu and Ribadu.
The statement by Ribadu reads:
“My attention has been drawn to the interview granted by Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the immediate past governor of Kaduna State Monday evening.
If my silence wouldn’t risk being construed as consent, I would have ignored him. I am too preoccupied with my current assignment as to get into a media fight with Nasir El-Rufai or anyone else.
Despite the incessant baiting and attacks I have never spoken ill of Nasir on record anywhere. This is out of respect for our past association and our respective families. I will not start today.
I however urge the public to disregard El-rufai’s statements against me.
For the avoidance of doubt, I want to put it on record that I have never discussed running for president in 2031 with anybody. All my focus and energy are geared completely towards the advancement of Nigeria and the success of the President Tinubu administration.
I therefore ask Nasir El-Rufai to allow me face my onerous national assignment just as I do not bother myself with his own affairs.”
