“I Was Saved The Embarrassment Of Serving In Tinubu’s Disastrous Cabinet” – El-Rufai

By Gideon Njoku

Tinubu’s Cabinet Lacks Quality, it is a joke The Government is a disaster.

The immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has dismissed President Bola Tinubu’s Cabinet as a joke. He said it lacks quality representation. He, however, admitted that only about five members of the Federal Cabinet would pass as quality people.

El-Rufai a former APC chieftain who is now a member of a coalition intent on removing President Bola Tinubu from office in 2027 spoke Monday night to Charles Aniagolu on Arise Television’s Prime Time.

Recall that El-Rufai, a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Government of President Olusegun Obasanjo, was nominated by President Bola Tinubu to be a member of his Cabinet. But to the surprise of not a few people, the Senate declined his confirmation.

However, El-Rufai is not blaming the Senate. He blames Tinubu who he said instructed the Senate not to confirm his nomination.

Asked if he is unhappy over his non confirmation as a Minister, El-Rufai emphasised that the contrary was the case.

According to him, the quality of the members of President Tinubu’s Cabinet is so low, that it would have been a huge embarrassment for him to be a member of a Cabinet he described as disastrous.

He said the Cabinet has no quality; is nothing to write home about. But for about five of them, El-Rufai asked, who are the others?

Comparing the class of Ministers in Tinubu’s Cabinet to those of his class, he asked: “Where are the Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealas, where are the Oby Ezekwesilis?

“These guys can’t get it together. God saved me the embarrassment of being a part of this disaster.”

He said he would have had problems explaining to Nigerians, if he was a member of Tinubu’s Cabinet, why there is no electricity; why the economy is this terrible; why the exchange rate is like a “yoyo”.

He laughed at those who think he was desperate to be a Minister, and disclosed that Tinubu was not his friend but  begged him to be his Cabinet member. “I rejected from the beginning. He sort me out. He begged me. He requested for me. I am grateful to God it didn’t happen because I don’t know how to explain this disaster to Nigerians.”