A group, Like Minds Forum of Nigeria, has criticised the controversy surrounding the ministerial appointment of the former governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai.

The northern group berated the Nigerian Senate for withholding the confirmation of El-Rufai, as a minister, describing it as procedurally wrong and politically defective.

Northern group demands ministerial slot reserved for El-Rufai

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, Channels TV reported.

Addressing a news conference in Kaduna on Thursday, August 17, the convener of the group and a former commissioner for education in the state, Professor Shehu Muhammad, however, called on the Senate to immediately clear and confirm El-Rufai as it did to other ministerial nominees in order to douse the rising tension and confusion in the north and other parts of the country.

Buhari’s aide reveals El-Rufai's location Bashir Ahmad, a former digital media aide to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has revealed the location of the former Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, days after he missed out on the ministerial confirmation at the Nigerian Senate.

Ahmad, in a post shared on Twitter via @BashirAhmaad, on Tuesday, August 15, put up a photo of El-Rufai.

The former digital media aide captioned the photo thus; “Chilling in Beirut.”

Beirut is the capital and largest city in Lebanon.