Uba Sani rejects El-Rufai’s ministerial candidate Jafaru Sani; tells Tinubu to expect another name

The Kaduna governor said Mr El-Rufai’s proposed substitute has no political relevance in Kaduna and has been too loyal to the former governor, per our sources.

Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna has kicked against Jafaru Sani’s potential ministerial nomination as suggested by Nasir El-Rufai, Peoples Gazette learnt this weekend.

Mr El-Rufai had on Wednesday informed President Bola Tinubu of his intention to pull out of ministerial consideration. He subsequently proposed his replacement in Jafaru Sani, his staunch loyalist who served under him in Kaduna as commissioner.

While offering Jafaru Sani as his substitute, Mr El-Rufai told the president that he had informed Governor Sani about the choice and both parties had agreed, The Gazette reported on Friday. The former governor himself afterwards departed for Egypt.

But Governor Sani rushed back from a trip to London on Thursday evening to tell Mr Tinubu at the State House that he was not in agreement with Jafaru Sani as the replacement minister for Mr El-Rufai from Kaduna, per sources familiar with the conversation.

“He has now told the president to expect another name,” a source said under anonymity to discuss the matter. “He complained that Jafaru Sani has no political relevance in Kaduna and has been too loyal to El-Rufai.”

The development could open yet another flank in the political battle involving Mr El-Rufai, who said he decided to withdraw from ministerial nomination because he was incensed by a gang-up against him which the president did not do enough to communicate with him. The attack against Mr El-Rufai has been championed within the State House by national security adviser Nuhu Ribadu, The Gazette was told.

Mr Ribadu authorised a controversial security dossier that accused Mr El-Rufai of violence and corruption.

Mr El-Rufai has a history of condoning lethal violence, making inflammatory statements to rile up ethnic and religious embers, and was relentlessly accused of corruption as Abuja minister and Kaduna governor. He also deployed state resources to silence journalists and critics, a behavioural pattern that poliarised opinions even among Nigerian literary elite that he had long courted. He has continued to deny all allegations of wrongdoing, including those publicly documented against him.

Still, the credibility of the so-called security report was immediately doubted by Nigerians after the same national security establishment cleared Nyesom Wike, a notoriously violent and corrupt former governor of Rivers who brazenly rigged the outcome of the presidential election in his state for Mr Tinubu.

The purported security report also failed to flag the nomination of Abubakar Bagudu, a thief who laundered billions of public dollars for late dictator Sani Abacha. A large chunk of Mr Bagudu’s loot remained tucked in several jurisdictions abroad; while authorities in the United States and Britain are still tracing and confiscating hundreds of millions of dollars from the former Kebbi governor.

But Mr El-Rufai’s fate was not the first time a so-called security report would be drafted by the State Security Service to counter the nomination of a presidential nominee, although for other roles other than ministerial designations. In 2016, the SSS wrote two different security report for and against Ibrahim Magu’s nomination as the chairman of anti-graft office EFCC, causing nationwide confusion and mortifying then-President Muhammadu Buhari.

Mr Tinubu was widely expected to run a less rudderless administration until the confirmation of Mr El-Rufai, who had been gearing to take charge of Nigeria’s moribund power sector, was deferred by the Senate over public complaints.

But Mr El-Rufai held Mr Tinubu responsible for the botched nomination, telling the president to his face during the Wednesday meeting that the appeared borne out of a budding animosity, The Gazette reported. It was unclear how the president responded.

Mr El-Rufai said he was willing to continue rendering support for the administration from outside, and his backing of Jafaru Sani was widely seen as an exertion of influence over Kaduna politics. He had used that influence to make Uba Sani as his successor governor in March, after previously helping him to get into the Senate.

But with Governor Sani now pushing against Jafaru Sani, Mr El-Rufai could find himself simultaneously beating back political assaults in Abuja and Kaduna, a source said. Messrs El-Rufai and Sani did not answer calls from The Gazette on Saturday afternoon. Jafaru Sani’s telephone was switched off on Saturday afternoon, and a text message seeking comments did not deliver.

“We can only hope Malam El-Rufai is not too surprised by what Uba Sani just did to him,” a State House source said about the governor’s countemove. “They clearly have some unresolved issues between them.”

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Let Southern Kaduna breath!!!!
Tinubu 0 vs Helrufile 0 vs Kaduna 1

El-Rufai versus godson engaging in an open political power tussle.

El rufai is smart

He only used tinubu weakness to call his bluff that he too can sideline anyone

BTW who really wan be part of this terrible govt in the making when you would lose all your credentials of boasting you are special in the future

See as fashola was exposed as ekuke under buhari

The midget is finding life hard these days

Imagine fellow corrupt politicians like Akpabio and Nuhu Ribadu rejecting El rufai's nomination...now Uba Sani has also rejected his ministerial candidate.

That goes a long way to show you how wicked, evil and divisive the Kaduna midget is.

I will honestly advise the president not to pick any candidate submitted by both El-Rufai and uba sani. The president has the identities of those who help his victory from Kaduna such as Barr. Abdullahi Mukhtar Mohammed, the immediate past chairman of Hajj commission or Hon. Zailani who is the immediate former speaker of Kaduna House of Assembly.
These two are bridge builders and are acceptable to every section of the state.

El-Rufai is gradually getting there...

Noted.

Interesting...

All scam

Too early.

Damnnn niggar
Bunch of miscreants



Apc and tinubu is worse

36 states, 47 ministers

41 of the 47 ministers have corruption cases


9 of the 10 governors who lost elections are now ministers

Fake news. No single credible link or source. Check my signature for free stuffs!

Uba Sani is a Saint when compared to El-rufai. The man has been been an activist before Elrufai was brought into public office by Atiku

K

Why are they dragging El Rufai in the mud.

Very interesting

Correct

Omo president job no be beans oh...

Too much of things to think about...

Abeg we ain't ready for any war biko

Hehehe.

Why,why.

Northern Agbadorians on their space were saying Tinubu have used and dumped ElRufai and they won't accept that. Cornfusion

How much be dollar

Chai! Nobody wan associate with El Rufai again.
El Rufai, na fall you don dey fall so ooo. No expect any come back again.

Lol…these people are just there for their interest…dem no even send us again

Wahala.

Ah, that's going against the wishes of his controversial godfather. Could this be genesis of political conflict between godfather and godson?

keymatt:
Let Southern Kaduna breath!!!!

They are breathing

slawomir:
Damnnn niggar
Bunch of miscreants



Apc and tinubu is worse

36 states, 47 ministers

41 of the 47 ministers have corruption cases


9 of the 10 governors who lost elections are now ministers

Nigeria is a misnomer