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no art to find the mind’s construction in the face”, and for Keyamo, “all that glitters is not gold”. These two men, who have probably been role models for many, have recently unraveled in the most embarrassing manner so much so that those who held them in high esteem would be having second thoughts by nowNone of us, especially from Southern Nigeria, had ever suspected that Nasir el-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna state, harboured such thoughts.

I had expected that by now, President Tinubu would have condemned El-Rufai’s vile and dangerous sentiments in its entirety and distanced himself from them, more so since the kernel of the message was a direct reference to the president and his Muslim-Muslim ticket.

As the 2022 campaign season became more and more intense, Keyamo became more and more inflammable and vitriolic. On Wednesday, May 24, at the valedictory session of FEC, Keyamo read a prepared speech in which he told the president, vice president, and other members of the council that the position of minister of state he had occupied for four years was illegal and unconstitutional. One member of the council told me: “I could not raise my face to look at the President when I heard those words”.

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