JUST IN: Nasir el-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna, says Nigerians should not believe the narrative that the national assembly rejected him as a ministerial nominee. Speaking in an interview with Arise TV on Monday, el-Rufai said President Bola Tinubu did not want him in his cabinet. The former Kaduna said the president begged him publicly for him to suspend his plans for ministerial appointment.