The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that it is not the birth-rights of the for Governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai to be made minister.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Senator Ajibola Bashir stated this on Wednesday while featuring on TVC.
Basiru, while commenting on el-Rufai’s recent statement that the gap between him and APC is widening said it wasn’t anyone’s birth right to be made minister.
The party scribe stated: “I don’t think it is the birth right of anybody to be a minister or to be functionary of any government.
“So if per chance, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai thought that having lost out in the bid to be minister make it to be far different from a political party under which he served as governor for eight years, I can’t know what would be the rationale for that.”
“We have a country of 180 million people, and if you have the chance to serve as a governor, I think the probability that any Nigerian will serve as governor is 0.00% if we want to look at it from that perspective. So, he has had the opportunity from being a leader of the party, and of course, the country. So the fact that at this time around, he could not scale the hurdle of being a minister should not be a basis of seeing the party distancing from him.”
The party scribe noted that as a leader of the party, el-Rufai has responsibilities and roles to play in Kaduna state and to ensure party programs and activities are tended, while contributing his own quota to a party that gave him a platform to be a governor for eight years.
When reminded that el-Rufai was one of the party chieftains that stood firm and insisted that power must return to the South, Basiru maintained d that President Bola Tinubu did his job by nominating him as a minister.
He added: “Governance is a serious matter, the President has done his own job by nominating him to be a minister. It is for the National Assembly, which is the confirming authority to determine those that will be confirmed or not, and then there’s this entitlement.
“And then, there is this entitlement mentality that we should take away from governance. What the constitution provides for is that there should be a minister from every state, and to the best of my knowledge, another person equally qualified is serving as minister from Kaduna state.
“So, as far as the law is concerned, the constitution is concerned, we must not bring it down as if serving in government is the birth right of a few individuals, some other people should also have the opportunity of being tested, so that we can be able to know what they have in offer in service of the country.”