{"id":3490,"date":"2023-10-04T10:43:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T10:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2023-10-04T10:43:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T10:43:59","slug":"tinubu-picks-balarabe-to-replace-el-rufai-as-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/10\/04\/tinubu-picks-balarabe-to-replace-el-rufai-as-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Picks Balarabe To Replace El-Rufai As Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">President Bola Tinubu has nominated Abbas Balarabe as a minister to\u00a0 replace for a former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, whose nomination was rejected by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The replacement was conveyed in a letter read by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at the plenary on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Balarabe\u2019s name was read alongside Dr Jamila Ibrahim and Ayodele Olawande, who were earlier nominated by the President as Minister of Youths and Minister of State for Youths, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Balarabe, a former Secretary to the Kaduna State government, led the 65-man transition committee of Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Senate had in August refused to confirm the nomination of El-Rufai alongside a former Managing Director of Nexim Bank, Stella Okotete (Delta State); and Abubakar Danlandi, a nominee from Taraba State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The President had earlier sent 48 nominees to the Senate, which confirmed 45, who have since been sworn in as ministers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has nominated Abbas Balarabe as a minister to\u00a0 replace for a former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3492,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/3492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}