{"id":122462,"date":"2019-05-31T17:11:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122462"},"modified":"2019-05-31T17:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T16:15:42","slug":"buhari-told-me-he-chose-gbajabiamila-for-speaker-not-tinubu-el-rufai-makes-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=122462","title":{"rendered":"Buhari told me he chose Gbajabiamila for Speaker not Tinubu – El-Rufai makes revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has declared that House Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila (APC, Lagos) was being backed by President Muhammadu Buhari himself, and not the APC national leader, Bola Tinubu as is supposed in some quarters.<\/p>\n

El-Rufai stated this on Friday when the Femi\/Wase Campaign, alongside over 120 other lawmakers, paid him a visit at the Kaduna State Government House.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a misconception that Femi\u2019s candidature was from Bola Tinubu but the fact is that it was President Muhammadu Buhari himself who chose him because of his commitment and dedication to legislative duties.<\/p>\n

\u200e\u201dThe President told me because I was not in Nigeria when he took the decision,\u201d Daily Trust quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of our colleagues raised some misgivings but it\u2019s just a matter of working chemistry, whom you can work with comfortably; not competence or whatever.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last four years in the National Assembly have taught us bitter lessons about working chemistry,\u200e and here in Kaduna State, I take part in choosing who becomes the Speaker of the State Assembly.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I told the President that he must be involved in the process this time around.<\/p>\n

\u200e\u201dKaduna State believes in Buhari\u2019s words, and I assure you that there would be no contest on June 11 when the leadership of the National Assembly would be inaugurated,\u201d El-Rufai said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has declared that House Leader, Femi Gbajabiamila (APC, Lagos) was being backed by President Muhammadu Buhari himself, and not the APC national leader, Bola Tinubu as is supposed in some quarters. El-Rufai stated this on Friday when the Femi\/Wase Campaign, alongside over 120 other lawmakers, paid him a visit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3,4],"tags":[27,41,11057,8017,62],"class_list":["post-122462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-27","tag-buhari","tag-elrufai-2","tag-femi-gbajabiamila","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}