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<p>Bashir el-Rufai, son of former Kaduna governor Nasir el-Rufai, unleashed a barrage of slurs at his brother, Bello, on Saturday morning.</p>
<p>Bashir, in a series of expletive-laden posts on X, attacked Bello over his recent political moves, accusing him of abandoning the family while he was aligned with Uba Sani, his father’s successor.</p><div class="ALJSW1Zj" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>Sani, the incumbent governor of Kaduna, was a former ally of el-Rufai, but both men fell out after the former won the 2023 governorship election.</p>
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<p>Following el-Rufai’s resignation from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in March 2025, Bello, who represents Kaduna north federal constituency, remained in the ruling party.</p>
<p>However, on May 7, 2026, Bello eventually defected from the APC to join his father in the African Democratic Congress (ADC).</p>
<p>Commenting on Saturday, Bashir alleged that his brother remained loyal to Sani until he realised he was being “dumped”, after which he began talking about family loyalty.</p>
<p>“Stuck with Uba Sani until he realized he is being dumped then suddenly remembered family loyalty and moved to ADC. Where was he since? Purely serving his interest,” Bashir wrote.</p>
<p>He accused his brother of being neutral while others criticised the Kaduna state governor.</p>
<p>Bashir also alleged that Bello asked him to “pipe down my criticism of his former boss,” presumably Sani.</p>
<p>One of Bashir’s tweets. The expletives have been redacted.<br />
“At this stage in my life, I hate nonsense,” he added, while calling his brother a hypocrite.</p>
<p>Bashir also made several other allegations against his brother in the X posts, some of which were later deleted.</p>
<p>The allegations bordered on fertility status and unsubstantiated drug use.</p>
<p>Their father, el-Rufai, has been in custody since February 2026 over alleged financial impropriety during his tenure as governor of Kaduna between 2015 and 2023.</p>
<p>On April 13, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) arraigned him at the Kaduna high court on an amended nine-count charge bordering on alleged fraud and abuse of office.</p>
<p>The Department of State Services (DSS) is also prosecuting el-Rufai before the federal high court in Abuja over allegations of wiretapping.</p>
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