Tinubu Intentionally Disgracing me - El Rufai

EL RUFAI SET TO REJECT APPOINTMENT

Nasir El-Rufai is SET TO REJECT president Tinubu’s nomination even if his security clearance ultimately goes through in the senate, Exclusive Dispatch obtained information from his inner circles.

The Ex Kaduna governor said he was incensed by the hold on his senatorial endorsement that appeared to cast a pall on his security status as a prominent Nigerian politician, according to the sources who urged anonymity to relay aspects of a recent meeting with the ministerial nominee.

From our findings, Mr El-Rufai has not publicly announced his intention to abandon his ministerial nomination because he believed the Senate would eventually receive a green light from the national security establishment and subsequently confirm him. He has decided to wait until his confirmation before announcing his desire not to serve in the cabinet, sources said, eliminating any emergency developments that could force his hands otherwise. He could be the first to resign ministerial appointment between Senate confirmation and inauguration.

An aid to the former governor claimed “His Excellency Nasir El-Rufai is a man of conviction, and he has made it clear that he won’t be meeting Nuhu Ribadu to lobby him for security clearance,” one of our sources said. “In fact, he was supposed to be in Abuja on Wednesday for a meeting with the NSA but he vigorously turned it down.”

some pained loyalist to the ex governor claims Tinubu intentionally told the DSS and NSA to write that letter. To prevent Mallam Elrufai from decoding it very easily, he included two other people. If not, why would the President nominate a person and instead of NSA privately communicating with him on why they think the person is a security risk, they’d write to the Senate to withhold confirmation? That would mean that they the DSS and NSA are working against the president, but it’s all a planned power play to deny the man he whom he assumes to be cunning the opportunity to be a minister.