{"id":4440,"date":"2025-02-25T12:06:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T12:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=4440"},"modified":"2025-02-25T12:06:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T12:06:34","slug":"tinubu-youre-hurt-over-ministerial-rejection-presidency-replies-el-rufai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/02\/25\/tinubu-youre-hurt-over-ministerial-rejection-presidency-replies-el-rufai\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu: You\u2019re Hurt Over Ministerial Rejection \u2013 Presidency Replies El-Rufai"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Presidency on Tuesday said former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai feels hurt over his exclusion from President Bola Tinubu\u2019s cabinet.<\/p>\n

Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said it is time for El-Rufai to move on and stop behaving like a child crying over spilt milk.<\/p>\n

He was reacting to El-Rufai\u2019s remark that Tinubu rejected him, not the National Assembly, despite begging him to become a minister in his cabinet.<\/p>\n

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The former governor made the allegation while featuring on Arise Television on Monday evening.<\/p>\n

However, Onanuga said El-Rufai\u2019s reaction is natural after being rejected as a minister.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Channels Television\u2019s Sunrise Daily, Onanuga said: \u201cAs a person, I think I will pity the former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai. He feels hurt that he was not made a minister. I think it is time for him to move on. He can\u2019t continue to behave like a child, as if somebody stole his bread and he is crying.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s natural for him to feel hurt about being excluded, and the president acknowledged in his birthday message that Nasir helped a lot in installing Tinubu. If he\u2019s not there, it doesn\u2019t mean he should bring down the roof.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president has no animosity against Nasir. He naturally feels hurt that he has been excluded, so he goes about campaigning against the president and would not let go.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe should forget about not being made a minister. He has been in public service since 1999; it\u2019s time for him to move on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Presidency on Tuesday said former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai feels hurt over his exclusion from President Bola Tinubu\u2019s cabinet. Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said it is time...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4442,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4440\/revisions\/4442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}