Nasarawa State governor, Abdullahi Sule, has asserted that the Progressives Governors’ Forum had no involvement in the ministerial nomination issue faced by former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai. According to DAILY POST, El-Rufai was outspoken in his support for Bola Tinubu as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the recent general elections. He, along with other northern governors, backed Tinubu against two other significant northern contenders. Tinubu secured the APC nomination and was elected as Nigeria’s president in the February 2023 elections. In recognition of El-Rufai’s efforts, Tinubu selected him as one of his ministers three months after taking office, but the Senate ultimately rejected El-Rufai during the ministerial screening. Sule, who is part of the Progressive Governors Forum, emphasized that El-Rufai remains with the ruling party. “El-Rufai has not left our party; he is still part of our party,” Sule stated on Channels Television’s Politics Today program on Wednesday. He added that the reasons for El-Rufai’s nomination and subsequent Senate rejection were not topics discussed within either the Progressives Governors Forum or the Nigeria Governors Forum. They are not problems because we cannot do anything about things that don’t involve us. “It is Mr. President’s right to choose his ministers, and he has made his nominations.” “The Nasarawa governor stated that there are agencies, such as the National Assembly, that either approve or deny, and they chose to reject him.”
