Some do not know that Head of State Abdulsalami Abubakar was the first to appoint Malam Nasir El-Rufai before he joined Olusegun Obasanjo's government.
From a background of private practice in quantity surveying, El Rufai first came into public service with the appointment by General Abdulsalami Abubakar in 1998 into a transition think tank, through the recommendation of his brother, Bashir El Rufai’s business partner who was in-law to the new Head of State. It was in this position he met Obasanjo who appointed him first as Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprise, BPE and later in September 2003 to restore the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, the masterplan.
El-Rufai was nominated by President Obasanjo at the start of his second term as minister of the FCT, the position through which he became known to many Nigerians. Over the course of four years, he took down 900 buildings, most of them sitting on utility lines. Orderliness was restored also to the oldest market in the city, Wuse.
El-Rufai was part of the core five figures of President Obasanjo’s economic team that delivered NEEDS in the period, 2003-2007, which recorded the fastest rates of economic growth in Nigeria’s history.
In 2015, El-Rufai won an election to become governor of Kaduna State.
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