{"id":15860,"date":"2023-10-04T10:42:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T10:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15860"},"modified":"2023-10-04T10:42:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T10:42:54","slug":"tinubu-picks-balarabe-to-replace-el-rufai-as-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15860","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  replace for a former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, whose nomination was rejected by the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2875,2449,7042],"class_list":["post-15860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-minister","tag-nasir-el-rufai","tag-president-bola-ahmed-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15862,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860\/revisions\/15862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}