Nassarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has explained that the governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress couldn’t help Nasir El-Rufai to get approval at the Senate following his nomination by President Bola Tinubu.
El-Rufai was among the APC governors who insisted that power must return to southern region even when it was clear that Muhammadu Buhari, the immediate past president, preferred another northerner to take over from him in 2023.
Tinubu nominated Mallam Nasir El-Rufai just as he did to others. But the Senate, which has regularly danced to the tune of the president, rejected his nomination on the ground that there were some petitions against him. He went on to lose a chance to take part in the government. And since then he has been a critic of Tinubu.
While talking on a television, Governor Sule said that El-Rufai has not dumped the APC despite some rumours around his political affiliation. He himself has debunked the information.
The Nassarawa State governor explained, “El-Rufai has not left our party; he is still part of our party,” Sule said on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Wednesday.
“What led to his (El-Rufai’s) nomination, what led to his rejection by the Senate or by the security agencies, to be honest with you, are not issues we discussed either at the Progressives Governors’ Forum or even the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. They are not issues because what doesn’t concern us, we can do nothing about it.
“It is the prerogative of Mr President to nominate whoever should be his minister and he nominated. Also, there are agencies including the National Assembly that either confirm or reject and they rejected (him),” said the Nasarawa governor.
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