Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna, has visited his
ex-principal, Olusegun Obasanjo, in his home in Abeokuta, the capital city of
Ogun state.
“Earlier today, I visited my boss. Former President Olusegun
Obasanjo welcome me and my friends to his Abeokuta home. We were hosted to a
sumptuous lunch by Mrs. Obasanjo for which we are very grateful. Back to base
for Christmas in sha Allah,” he wrote on X, on Sunday.
El-Rufai worked as the director-general of Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and later as
minister of the federal capital territory (FCT) in the eight-year
administration of Obasanjo.
In 2019, Obasanjo described el-Rufai as one of the best
persons to work with and that he is a “near-genius and a man that you know
where you stand with him. Any job given to him will be well done.”
On his part, el-Rufai, at a world conference in South Africa
in September 2023, said the second term of Obasanjo was the most successful in
terms of economic growth, job creation, and inflation rate in the history of
Nigeria.
“If you look at Nigeria’s economic trajectory, the most
successful four to five-year period of economic growth, job creation, and
reduced inflation was the period of the second term of President Obasanjo in
2003 to 2007, when for the first time, the country went back into proper
integrated planning and we also got lucky,” he said.
His recent visit to the former president’s home in Ogun
comes less than two weeks after the conferment of a chieftaincy title on him in
Ijebuland in the state.
Sikiru Kayode Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebuland, conferred
the former governor with the title on December 16.
Meanwhile, the former governor of Kaduna is the first person
outside the south-west to be conferred with a chieftaincy title by the monarch.
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