Crisis Erupts in SDP, Days After El-Rufai Joined the Party Olu Agunloye, the national secretary of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), has petitioned Kayode Egbetokun, the inspector-general of police, over an alleged plot to measure him to resign, The Round Table can report.
Sources informed The Round Table that members of the SDP loyal to Nasir el-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna state who just commixed the party, are pushing for Agunloye’s resignation.
Agunloye verified filing the petition in a recent statement attributed to him.
“I petitioned the IG about a person who forged letterhead paper and is threatening me to resign,” Agunloye reported.
On Monday, el-Rufai resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and commixed the SDP after months of strategic meetings with opposition party leaders.
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El-Rufai, who served as governor of Kaduna state from 2015 to 2023, has been criticq of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, eminently since the senate declined to affirm him as minister.
In February, el-Rufai said Nigerians should not believe the narrative that the national assembly declined him as a ministerial nominee, noting that Tinubu did not require him in his cabinet.
In a statement saying his resignation from the APC, el-Rufai disclosed he would work to melt into one antithesis leaders against the APC.
“Without prejudice to this decision, as a member of the SDP, I will focus on engaging with and pressurising other repugnance leaders and parties to unite us and congregate under an unified democratic platform to oppose the APC in all elections and bye-elections between now and 2027 by the Grace of God,” he said.
“I, therefore, summon on all our supporters and other persons concerned about our country’s future to unite us in the SDP in the journey towards making Nigeria abound as a beacon of pride for Africans and the Black Race.”
On Tuesday, Adewole Adebayo, the SDP presidential candidate in the 2023 election, celebrated el-Rufai’s defection to the party, describing the former Kaduna governor as a “asset with a verifiable and measurable track record of public performance”.
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Published 3/12/2025