{"id":133285,"date":"2019-07-06T08:45:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T07:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133285"},"modified":"2019-07-06T08:52:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T07:52:02","slug":"el-rufais-son-threatens-buhari-over-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133285","title":{"rendered":"El-Rufai\u2019s Son Threatens Buhari Over Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/El-Rufai\u2019s-Son-Threatens-Buhari-Over-Appointments.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bello, a son of Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has expressed concerns over recent appointment made by President Muhammadu Buhari, threatening to protest the re-appointment of some ministers and aides who served in his first term.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaduna State governor\u2019s son said if Buhari re-appoints same set of ministers, he would lose the trust of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe trust you, Mr. President. It has nothing to do with partisanship. It has nothing to do with your cult following that only fools deny. But recent appointments aside, if some Ministers return, well, that trust will become very unsteady. We are not PDP, you will hear us!\u201d Bello tweeted Friday night.<\/p>\n<div class=\"block-story-object block-story-object-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" data-width=\"550\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We trust you Mr. President. It has not nothing do with partisanship. It has nothing to do with your cult following that only fools deny. But recent appointments aside, if some Ministers return, well, that trust will become very unsteady. We are not PDP, you will hear us!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bello El-Rufai (@B_ELRUFAI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/B_ELRUFAI\/status\/1147260698638082048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Against expectations, Buhari had approved the re-appointment of Boss Mustapha as Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Abba Kyari as Chief of Staff to the President. <\/p>\n<p>A statement by Presidential Spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said both appointments took effect from May 29, 2019. Meanwhile, many Nigerians, opposition parties, economists and foreign investors have expressed worries over the delay in President Buhari&#8217;s appointment of ministers.<br \/>\nIt appears with the latest statement by the Presidency, Buhari&#8217;s current priority is his domestic staff.<\/p>\n<p>The President, who has been accused of nepotistic tendencies, reeled out the names of 11 people mostly from the northern part of the country.\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bello, a son of Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has expressed concerns over recent appointment made by President Muhammadu Buhari, threatening to protest the re-appointment of some ministers and aides who served in his first term. The Kaduna State governor\u2019s son said if Buhari re-appoints same set of ministers, he would lose the trust of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133286,"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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133285","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=133285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}