The presidency has said that the recent outburst of the former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, does not reflect the reality but is borne out of his resentment for being excluded from President Bola Tinubu’s administration.

Mallam El-Rufai in a recent interview on Arise Television said that it was not the National Assembly that rejected him as a ministerial nominee but President Tinubu who simply “changed his mind on the nomination.”

But in a riposte on Arise Television on Tuesday morning, the Special Adviser to the President on Information & Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, urged Mallam El-Rufai to move on and stop displaying the resentment of someone who was left out of a moving train.

According to the presidential aide, the former governor of Kaduna state feels hurt about being excluded from Tinubu’s cabinet despite his contribution to Tinubu’s electioneering process, maintained that, the former governor’s dissatisfaction about President Tinubu’s administration does not reflect reality.

The Special Adviser said: “As a person, I think I will pity the former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai. He feels hurt that he was not made a minister. It has been a long time since the ministers were appointed, and I think it is time for him to move on. You cannot continue being like a child as if someone stole your bread, and you are crying over a spilt milk.

“It is natural for him to feel hurt that he has been excluded from Tinubu’s government and the President, in his birthday tribute to El-Rufai, acknowledged his contribution to the party, he actually helped a lot in installing the president Bola Tinubu. The exclusion is the reason he is going about campaigning against the president.

“He is showing the resentment of a man being left out of a moving train. I will advise him to forget everything that happened or not being made a minster, he has been in public service since 1999. His dissatisfaction about Tinubu’s government is his personal opinion and it does not reflect reality.