A survey by one of America’s reputable academic institutions on the most important thing fathers want from their children showed that the majority said they would want their children to be better and greater than them. This is one common desire of all men irrespective of their race, color, class or tribe, we all want our children to be better than us.
Hon. Mohammed Bello El-Rufai is the son of former Kaduna State governor and most outstanding honorable minister in Nigeria since 1999, Nasir El-rufai. He was born on January 11, 1988. He is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and politician. He is a United World College (UWC) Scholar and holds a B.Sc (a Major in Political Science & International Relations and a Minor in Religious Studies) from Wheaton College, Massachusetts. Honourable El-Rufai also obtained an M.Sc in Public Relations & Corporate Communications from Georgetown University in 2015. He completed his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in 2015, serving with the political pressure group Good Governance Group (3G).
During the 2015 general elections, he co-founded the Political Action Committee, Rescue Kaduna Group (RKG), alongside Hafiz Bayero, the current Senior Advisor Counsellor to the Kaduna State Governor and Mukhtar Baloni, the current Chairman of Kaduna North Local Government. His efforts led to his appointment as the Director of Youth Mobilization of the Buhari Campaign Organization (BCO) for the 2015 general elections.Under the recommendation of renowned businessman and philanthropist Hakeem Belo Osagie, Honourable El-Rufai was hired as a Manager with Huawei Nigeria. He worked in the Enterprise Business Unit for four years before leaving the private sector to work with Senator Uba Sani in the 9th National Assembly. The Senator, currently the Governor of Kaduna State, recruited the 35-year-old Bello to serve as his Senior Legislative Aide and Chief of Staff.
As the youngest Senior Legislative Aide in the Senate, Bello was pivotal in establishing an efficient, innovative and productive system in the Senator’s office. The system ensured synergy between the Senator’s office, the Committee Clerk’s office and the Constituency offices in Kaduna. Consequently, the system was duplicated by various ranking Senators due to its unique and practical approach to Legislative representation. The outcome was a record number of bills for a freshman Senator (32 bills), of which three were assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR.
On February 27, 2023, he defeated a former Kaduna North Local Government Area Chairman and a two-term sitting Member to win the House of Representatives seat for the Kaduna North Federal Constituency. He is currently a Board Member of the Yasmin El-Rufai Foundation (YELF) and the founder of the Hamza El-Rufai Foundation (HELF).
by Simon Tuleh, Aug-Oct 2023.