By Suleyman Dunoma Abuja.
A group of Like Minds Forum of Nigeria has criticized the Senate for withholding the confirmation of the former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, as a minister, describing it as procedurally wrong and politically defective.
The Forum including some political appointees who served in the El-Rufai administration, observed that the process of El-Rufai’s confirmation as minister after being nominated by President Bola Tinubu has taken the shape of a conspiracy against the former governor.
Addressing a news conference in Kaduna on Thursday, the convener of the Like Minds Forum of Nigeria and a former Commissioner for Education in the state, Professor Shehu Muhammad, wonders why security agencies have not arrested or charged El-Rufai to court based on the so-called petitions against him or the Senate being able to make the petitions public if indeed there is nothing fishy about the entire process.
Similarly, there is also a move by Zazzau Emirate and Kaduna State Government to send a strong delegation to the presidency to prevail on it to give back El-Rufai Ministerial slot, Because he was not fairly treated.
