Former Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, appears to still be grappling with his exclusion from President Bola Tinubu’s ministerial list by the National Assembly.
El-Rufai has been vocal in his criticism of the Tinubu-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government.
In a recent development, he accused President Tinubu of deliberately removing him from his cabinet. He made the shocking revelation during an interview recently.
He said: “The National Assembly had nothing to do with my exclusion from the ministerial list. the president didn’t want me in his cabinet.”
“I’m a founding member of the APC, but I have concern about how the party is being run… how many people sacrificed a lot to ensure that it was an internally democratic party with progressive ideals, two years after the election of President of Tinubu, none of the party organs is functioning. The progressive ideals are not being pursued with any vigour.”
“Since I left office and the president begged me publicly to support him, I said I would and I don’t want anything. I am a self-made man I don’t need anything.”
“Through two months of negotiations we finally agreed that he would nominate me as minister and there were certain conditions I attached to that, along the line, either the president changed his mind.”
“Please don’t believe the story that the National Assembly rejected me, they had nothing to do with it, the president didn’t want me in his cabinet.”
“What was the security issue the National Assembly had against me? Where is the report? There were far less qualified, less experienced that scaled through because the president made a call. He is a human being he’s entitled to change his mind.”
