El-Rufai reportedly absent at his Son’s Wedding

On Saturday, while Bello, his eldest son, married Aisha Habibu Shuaibu, his second wife, Nasir El-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna State, was conspicuously absent.

El-Rufai reportedly flew a private plane out of the country after resigning from the cabinet race. The Senate last week accepted 45 of President Bola Tinubu’s 48 nominations for ministerial positions.

However, the Senate said that El-Rufai and two other nominees, Stella Okotete (Delta) and Danladi Abubakar (Taraba), were still awaiting security approval.

The former governor visited with President Tinubu on Tuesday at the presidential palace in Abuja before departing for another country. As reported by insiders, he headed to Europe but planned to first stop in Egypt.

On Saturday in Abuja, Bello, the head of the House of Representatives Committee on Banking Regulations, got married privately to Col. Habibu Shuaibu’s daughter, an ex-military administrator for the Plateau and Niger States.

The father of the day was Kaduna’s Governor Uba Sani, with whom Bello assisted in legislative matters while the governor was a senator. In Hausa custom, the waliyyi, who represents the bride’s family during weddings, distributes the bride while the wakili, or representative of the groom’s father, welcomes her.

However, because Hajia Hadiza Isma El-Rufai was there, this custom did not prevent the couple’s parents from attending their children’s wedding. The governor wrote in the tagline of some photos he shared from the event on his verified X account, which is known as Twitter.

“I had the honor of serving as the father of the groom at the marriage nuptial of my former Senior Legislative Aide and member of the House of Representatives (Kaduna North Federal Constituency), Honorable Bello El-Rufai, and his lovely bride, Aisha Shuaibu.”