Former FCT Minister and immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai has said that he was not rejected by the National Assembly as a ministerial nominee but by President Bola Tinubu himself who supposedly nominated and forwarded the Governor’s name to the Senate for screening.
In August 2023, the Senate withheld the confirmation of El-Rufai as a ministerial nominee, citing security reports from the Department State Security (DSS) for its action.
But speaking on Monday – earlier today, February 24 – in an interview on Arise TV, El-Rufai said President Bola Tinubu simply “changed his mind on the nomination”
“After serving for eight years as Governor of Kaduna state, I had my plans. The President publicly appealed to me to put my plans on hold and after some time we finally agreed that he would nominate me as a Minister, and there were certain conditions I attached to that. I think along the line, either the president changed his mind or something else,” El-Rufai stated.
“Please, don’t believe the story that the National Assembly rejected me. The President didn’t want me in his cabinet; he changed his mind. Whatever it is, frankly, I don’t care,” he said.
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