365NEWS gathered that Former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-rufai has said he wasn’t a close associate of President Bola Tinubu.
El-rufai, who spoke in an interview with Arise TV on Monday, stated that during the 2022 presidential primary election of the All Progressives Congress, APC, he was indifferent on the choice of candidate.
According to him, his only concern was for a Southerner to emerge as the party’s flagbearer, stressing that whoever the South presented didn’t matter.
He said, “I was indifferent on who became the presidential candidate of APC.
“The only thing I was determined to do was to stop a Northerner from becoming the candidate of the party based on what I know.
“When we formed the party in 2013, we agreed that after Buhari’s 8 years, power will go to the South.
“Tinubu was never my friend, we weren’t close”.
The former governor of Kaduna State, Mallam El-Rufai, has claimed that President Bola Tinubu did not want him in his cabinet.
According to him, the National Assembly did not reject him because of a security report from the Department of State Services, DSS.
Speaking on Arise TV on Monday night, El-Rufai said, “Forget what you 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.
“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.”
