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Ministerial Nomination: El-rufia Withdraws; Nominates Replacement.

AdminBy AdminAugust 11, 2023Updated:August 11, 2023No Comments2 Mins Read
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Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has reportedly withdrawn his interest in President Bola Tinubu’s Ministerial appointment.
El-Rufai lost interest in serving in President Tinubu’s cabinet after a meeting at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday.
Recall that El-Rufai visited the President a day after the Senate confirmed 45 Ministerial nominees after a week-long screening and confirmation.
The Upper legislative chamber, however, withheld his confirmation and those of two others, citing security reports from the State Security Service for the action.
The two others were a former Senator from Taraba, Alhaji Sani Danladi, and a nominee from Delta State, Dr Stella Okotete.
A presidency source revealed that El-Rufai was no longer interested in becoming a Minister due to his current Doctorate programme but would continue to contribute his quota to the development of Nigeria as a private citizen.
The sources said, “He also told the President that he needed time to focus on his Doctorate programme at a University in The Netherlands.”
The former governor is studying for a Doctorate in Public Policy at the United Nations University, Maastricht.
Another insider also stated that El-Rufai suggested a new Ministerial nominee, Jafaru Ibrahim Sani, for Kaduna State, saying the President would find him helpful and resourceful.
Also, during the meeting, President Tinubu also told the former governor he received petitions critical to his Ministerial nomination.
The President, however, demanded 24 hours of grace to review the petitions and the SSS report to the Senate to enable him to reach a decision.
At that point, El-Rufai responded that he was no longer interested in being a Minister since it appeared some forces around the President were scheming intensely to block his emergence as federal Minister.
Recall that Tinubu had asked him to work with him on the country’s power problem.
According to the source, the President had given a target of seven years for Nigeria to stop experiencing power outages in the country.
Speaking on the development at the Tuesday meeting, El-Rufai reportedly told the President that since he would no longer be in the federal executive council, he would return with his team to present the preliminary work done so far on the energy sector.

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