Nigeria, March 18 -- A wild leap of faith has taken him to the Social Democratic Party from the APC. This statement would have been correct or at least uncontroverted by those who know Nasir El-rufai, the former Kaduna State Governor, but for the fact that he is not known to be a man of faith or fortitude. A lot of what he has raked in from Nigeria's wildly fluctuating harvest of mindless politics he owes to fate. Whenever he has encountered rocks on his political path, rather than attempt to move them, or failing, wring water from them, El-rufai has beaten a hasty retreat, shooting his political rifle wildly, taking cheap potshots.

He was a king during the administration of Olusegun Obasanjo, calling the shots in the FCT, and pulling do...