{"id":8058,"date":"2023-08-01T19:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=8058"},"modified":"2023-08-01T19:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T18:00:34","slug":"kogi-senator-moves-against-el-rufai-during-ministerial-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/kogi-senator-moves-against-el-rufai-during-ministerial-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Kogi Senator Moves against El-Rufai During Ministerial Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Senator Sunday Karimi (Kogi West) moved against ex-Kaduna Governor Nasir El Rufai during the ministerial screening on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">El-Rufai came in for his screening immediately after Olawale Edun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He reeled out to the Senate his achievements as Governor and former FCT Minister before questions were entertained by the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nSenator Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara West) was the first to ask him a question.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following Yari\u2019s question, Senator Suleiman Kwari (Kaduna North) appealed to his colleagues to allow the former Governor to take a bow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nEl-Rufai, however, answered the questions by Yari after which Akpabio told him to leave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Karimi had stood up after el-Rufai\u2019s presentations and told the Chamber that he had a petition written against the former Governor over insecurity in Southern Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read Also: Drama as Senators bicker over mode of screening for el-Rufai<br \/>\nRaising up a brown envelope, Karimi said: \u201cMr. President, I have a petition written against the nominee over the issue of insecurity in Southern Kaduna when he was Governor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf I am permitted, I will like to read the petition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Senate President, GodsWill Akpabio, who refused to take the petition, said a number of petitions were submitted against a number of the ministerial nominees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said: \u201cThis is not the place to consider petitions, we will sit with the petitions later and refer them to relevant authorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cPlease, take a bow, my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senator Sunday Karimi (Kogi West) moved against ex-Kaduna Governor Nasir El Rufai during the ministerial screening on Tuesday.\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[81,203,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-8058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-kogi-west","8":"tag-nasir-el-rufai","9":"tag-sunday-karimi"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kogi Senator Moves against El-Rufai During Ministerial Screening - Ebira Reporters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Senator Sunday Karimi (Kogi West) moved against ex-Kaduna Governor Nasir El Rufai during the ministerial screening on Tuesday. 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