{"id":193466,"date":"2025-03-13T15:42:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-what-buhari-told-me-before-i-left-apc-el-rufai\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T15:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:42:40","slug":"nigeria-what-buhari-told-me-before-i-left-apc-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-what-buhari-told-me-before-i-left-apc-el-rufai\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: What Buhari Told Me Before I Left APC &#8211; El-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>In a BBC interview, Mr El-Rufai said he didn&#8217;t regret supporting President Bola Tinubu in the 2023 election but was disappointed by the president.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>Former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, says he consulted President Muhammadu Buhari before he left the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https:\/\/apc.com.ng\/&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiS_dm1_YaMAxV0V0EAHXIRDE4QFnoFCIkBEAE&amp;usg=AOvVaw1OmQZIrhgFFwKa8uRjz4fJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All Progressives Congress<\/a><\/strong> (APC).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Mr El-Rufai left the APC on 10 March after meeting the former president at his Kaduna residence on 7 March. He said he consulted the former president and several other personalities before making the&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503130496.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a BBC interview, Mr El-Rufai said he didn&#8217;t regret supporting President Bola Tinubu in the 2023 election but was disappointed by the president. Former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, says he consulted President Muhammadu Buhari before he left the All Progressives Congress (APC). Mr El-Rufai left the APC on 10 March after meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,11297,5228,21159,7781,257,4687,393,254,7278],"class_list":["post-193466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apc","tag-buhari","tag-elrufai","tag-left","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-told"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}