- The ex-governor said the President changed his mind on the nomination after asking him publicly to not be far from him after leaving office.
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the ex-governor of Kaduna State, has claimed that President Bola Tinubu did not intend to include him in his administration.
He stated that the National Assembly’s decision to not approve him was not based on any security report from the Department of State Services, DSS.
During an interview on Arise TV Monday night, El-Rufai remarked, “Forget what you read. The National Assembly did not reject me. President Bola Tinubu changed his mind about working with me.”
“The security thing was a good excuse they used.”
“Since then, has anyone released that report telling us the security issue?”
“Look, I was minister 20 years ago. I don’t need to be in politics. I have a private life.”
“Tinubu appealed to me and begged me. He threw me a challenge that no president has sorted out electricity problems. He said you and I can do it. It was the challenge that made me accept it.”
“I had the opportunity to serve my country. The person that gave me took it back and that is not a problem.”
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