SGF Position: Reason Akume Was Picked Over El-Rufai

<h4>SGF Position&colon; Reason Akume Was Picked Over El-Rufai<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that as a follow up on the appointments of Senator George Akume as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation&comma; SGF&semi; Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila as Chief of Staff and former Deputy Governor of Jigawa&comma; Ibrahim Hadejia&comma; as Deputy Chief of Staff by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday&comma; fresh facts emerged on why immediate past Kaduna State governor&comma; Mallam Nasir El-Rufai&comma; who was touted as the anointed for the position of Secretary to the Government of the Federation&comma; lost out&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to insider who spoke to OpenLife immediately the news broke&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Tinubu was not going to appoint El-Rufai for such position&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Continuing&comma; the insider narrated thus&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Mallam El-Rufai was a latter day convert to the Tinubu political family&period; Before he joined Tinubu&comma; on the instrumentality of former President Muhammadu Buhari&comma; El-Rufai was a thorn on Tinubu’s flesh&period; He used every opportunity to dress down Tinubu in private and public&period; Tinubu only accommodated him to win the 2023 presidency&period; Tinubu is a very smart person&period; He knows those whose loyalty cannot be trusted whenever things do not go in their favour&period; El-Rufai is one of them&period; So&comma; Tinubu cannot make such error&period; I can tell you that El-Rufai will be kept very far from Tinubu because he is a known betrayal&comma;” the former Reps member disclosed&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On why <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;tribuneonlineng&period;com&sol;">Tinubu picked former governor George Akume&comma; the former Reps member said&colon;<&sol;a> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Tinubu can trust George Akume&period; They have come a long way&period; It was George Akume who helped Tinubu to introduce then Action Congress of Nigeria&comma; CAN to North Central Nigeria&period; Since then&comma; their friendship has been untainted&period; Tinubu wanted Akume to be the national chairman of APC but it was Buhari who unilaterally brought in Adamu Abdullahi&period; So&comma; Tinubu has been waiting for such opportunity to put Akume in a position of trust and the time is just now&comma;” he stated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;20880" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-20880" style&equals;"width&colon; 300px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-20880" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;06&sol;Tinubu-10-300x169&period;png" alt&equals;"SGF Position&colon; Reason Akume Was Picked Over El-Rufai" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"169" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-20880" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Tinubu&comma; Akume&comma; El-Rufai<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;