Nasir El-Rufai, former Governor of Kaduna State, has claimed that he was not really rejected by the Nationwide Meeting as a ministerial nominee, contradicting public notion of occasions from August 2023.

Throughout a Monday interview on Come up TV Prime Time, El-Rufai supplied new particulars about what occurred when the Senate withheld his affirmation as a ministerial nominee. Whereas official reviews cited safety considerations from the State Safety Service, El-Rufai claims President Bola Tinubu merely modified his thoughts.

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“After serving for eight years as governor of Kaduna state, I had my plans. The President publicly appealed to me to place my plans on maintain and after a while we lastly agreed that he would nominate me as a minister, and there have been sure circumstances I hooked up to that. I believe alongside the road, both the president modified his thoughts or one thing else,” El-Rufai mentioned. “Please, don’t imagine the story that the Nationwide Meeting rejected me. The President didn’t need me in his cupboard, he modified his thoughts. No matter it’s, frankly, I don’t care.”

El-Rufai then clarified that the PDP shouldn’t be a political get together he would contemplate becoming a member of. He additionally revealed that through the 2023 elections, he was “detached” about who grew to become president.

“It needs to be clear that the truth that I’m within the APC doesn’t imply that I can not go to a pal of mine who’s within the PDP or SDP. So anytime I go to anybody that isn’t in APC, they are saying, ‘Oh, he’s pondering of leaving the get together.’ In truth, about two months in the past, one character in Kaduna posted on his Fb web page that I’ve collected a PDP membership card in my ward. It was completely unfaithful,” he defined. “However PDP, no. Different events, presumably, if the APC doesn’t type itself out.”