The governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, is reportedly set to emerge as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) in the administration of President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
El-Rufai, a former FCT Minister and director-general of the Bureau for Public Enterprises, is a close ally of Tinubu.
Recall that Tinubu, a former Lagos State governor, had last year urged El-Rufai not to leave the country after his tenure as governor comes to an end but to stay to serve the country with him.
According to Leadership Newspaper, the Kaduna governor has been penciled down to take over from Boss Mustapha as the SGF of the incoming administration.
A source disclosed that as SGF, Tinubu believes El-Rufai will be able to galvanise Ministers to implement his administration’s policies effectively.
The source said: “You know that the office of the SGF is more or less the coordinating point for ministers in any federal cabinet. Tinubu believes that the Kaduna governor, who once served as minister, has the capacity to galvanise ministers to effectively implement government policies. This, coupled with his unalloyed loyalty to Tinubu, is the credentials giving him the qualities to become the next SGF.
“Don’t forget the confrontational manner in which he engaged the Aso Rock cabal at the peak of the cash crunch occasioned by the Naira swap policy.”
