Nasir el-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna, asserts that President Muhammadu Buhari handled the currency redesign strategy incorrectly. In an interview with the BBC Hausa on Monday, El-Rufai said that the policy was put into place to make the All Progressives Congress (APC) lose the election. He asserted that vote-buying was not the reason governors opposed … Read more
Senator Uba Sani, the governor of Kaduna State, has denied rejecting Nasir El-rufai’s cabinet nomination. According to , El-Rufai’s nomination was withdrawn during screening because the security check was not complete. El-Rufai declined the offer but proposed a successor a few days later. The governor’s spokesman, Muhammad Lawal Shehu, confirmed that the reports were false … Read more
Governor Nasir El-Rufai has expressed his readiness to continue sacking bad workers in Kaduna State and demolishing illegal structures until his last day in office. Speaking on Saturday in Kaduna during a book launch, El-Rufai explained that he was bent on continuing the move so that his successor would not need to do it again … Read more
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has applauded the people of Rivers State for voting for the President-elect, Bola Tinubu. El-Rufai said the people of Rivers State made the right choice by voting for Tinubu during the just concluded presidential election. He spoke at the commissioning of the Eneka-Igbo Etche Link Road in the Obio-Akpo … Read more
Residents of Kaduna have been urged to disregard President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that N500 and N1000 notes are no longer legal tenders by Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State. El-Rufai insisted that the old notes will be sealed and continue to be accepted by businesses in the state of Kaduna. Buhari had said in his … Read more
Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has come under fire from the Actors Guild of Nigeria for referring to Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi as a “Nollywood actor.” El-Rufai called Obi a Nollywood actor who couldn’t win the election on Thursday’s episode of TVC’s Journalists’ Hangout. Kate Henshaw, who is in charge of communication for … Read more
Nasir El-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State, has said that his harsh criticism of the group in the presidency that is working against Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s bid for the presidency as the leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was not done for his own benefit. The governor was talking to reporters on Friday, not … Read more