Mallam El-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna State, has boldly asserted that it was President Bola Tinubu, not the National Assembly, who chose to exclude him from the cabinet.
In a revealing interview on Arise TV late Monday night, El-Rufai denied claims of a rejection stemming from a security report by the Department of State Services, DSS. “Forget the headlines,” he insisted. “The truth is, the National Assembly did not reject me. It was President Bola Tinubu who 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.”
