Ministerial List: Sani knocks President Tinubu over inclusion of Nasir el-Rufai

Shehu Sani, a former Senator, author, playwright, and human rights activist has described as a big disappointment the ministerial list recently released by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Sani, while featuring on a political programme on ARISE TV, criticised the inclusion of the former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, in the ministerial list recently released to the Senate.

TheNewsGuru.com reports that Tinubu sent 28 ministerial nominees to the Senate through Femi Gbajabiamila, his Chief of Staff and former Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Senate President Godswill Akpabio read the names of ministerial nominees, including those of four former governors, on the floor of the Senate.

But Senator Shehu Sani while reacting to the inclusion of El-Rufai, opined that Tinubu did not consider competence in the list, saying that el-Rufai was a “tragedy.”

According to Shehu Sani, “With the nominations which I have seen, the one representing Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, is a tragedy.”

Sani wondered why such a man is given an opportunity to serve the country with all that he has done and has said in office in the past.

According to him, President Tinubu only tried to please some former governors and in the process displeasing many Nigerians.

He enjoined the president to always consider the interest of Nigerians and not trying to appease some selected few politicians.

Continuing, Sani noted that in the last eight years, Nigerians suffered in the hands of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and that the president should know this is the best time to prove his competence and capacity to lead Nigeria to greater heights.