The Social Democratic Party, SDP, has explained why it expelled and banished former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai for 30 years.
SDP’s National Working Committee, NWC, claimed that El-Rufai was never its member because he failed to register at his ward as required by law, despite claiming to be a member of the party on social media.
In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Araba Rufus Aiyenigba, the party said El-Rufai forged his Ward registration with the tag “001.”
The statement reads: “Upon thorough inquiry, it turned out that the Kaduna SDP was right that El-Rufai had not joined the SDP.
“Rather than register lawfully with the Ward Executives, El-Rufai simply forged his own documents and self-registered and arrogated to himself ‘number 001 in the SDP membership register of Unguwar Sarki Ward, Kaduna North Local Government Area,’ as if the ward had no single member prior to his purported joining. This is contrary to all existing and updated records of the SDP in Kaduna State.”