The former governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has revealed that President Bola Tinubu rejected him as minister and not the National Assembly.
He claimed that the National Assembly did not reject him because of a security report from the Department of State Services, DSS.
According to him, President Tinubu didn’t want him in his cabinet.
Speaking on Arise TV on Monday night, El-Rufai said: “The president publicly appealed to me to put my plans on hold, and through two months of negotiation, we finally agreed that he will nominate me as minister,” he said.
“There were certain conditions I attached to that. I think along the line either the president changed his mind or something else.
“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.”
