Former Minority Speaker of the House of representatives, Farouk Adamu Aliyu has described most politicians in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, as selfish elites.
He disclosed this during an interview with AIT on Monday.
Aliyu cautioned the masses and downtrodden against fighting themselves over issues concerning elites because the latter only care about themselves.
According to Aliyu: “I want the masses, the downtrodden to see us as what we are, politicians. Most of us are not trustworthy, most of us are selfish, most of us care for only ourselves because whenever you are part of a system, you don’t fight it.
“I want the masses of this country to understand that we the elites are one and the same, we are not enemies – Muslims or Christians – we are the same. Elites in the PDP and APC are one and the same.
“This is what I want the people to understand that at the elite level, we are one and the same, so please the people of this country should not fight your brother because he’s a Muslim or a Christian, either because he is a Fulani or an Igbo man because at our own level, we don’t fight or insult each other, or kill.
“So, I want those down the ladder to know that they should not kill themselves selves over these elite issues. Most of the fights are elite fights. Most of the Elites in the North are saying Tinubu does not like Muslims, he does not like Northerners and these are the same people who campaigned for Muslim-Muslim ticket in this country.
“And all of a sudden, they are saying we don’t want Tinubu, we won’t go for the Muslim-Muslim ticket again.”