Mallam El-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna State, has stated that President Bola Tinubu did not want him in his cabinet.
According to him, the National Assembly did not reject him based on a Department of State Services (DSS) security report.
El-Rufai told Arise TV on Monday night, “Forget what you’ve 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.
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“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.”
