Just In: I Was Rejected As Minister By President Tinubu Not Lawmakers – El-Rufai

A former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday said he was not rejected by the National Assembly as a ministerial nominee.

Naija News reports that El-Rufai, while speaking in an interview on Arise TV’s Prime Time, said President Bola Tinubu simply “changed his mind on the nomination”

El-Rufai, who debunked the claims that the National Assembly rejected him because of a security report from the Department of State Services (DSS) said, “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.”