BREAKING: NASS Didn’t Reject me, Tinubu Did – El-Rufai
Nasir El-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna State, has denied claims that the National Assembly rejected his nomination as a minister.
In August 2023, the Senate delayed confirming El-Rufai as a ministerial nominee, citing security reports from the State Security Service.
However, during an interview on Arise TV on Monday, El-Rufai explained that President Bola Tinubu merely “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 sometime 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.
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“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.
“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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