Why does the Ansible Automation Platform installer fail on the task "Enable base controller firewall ports" with the error "Could not process rule: No such file or directory"?

Issue

AAP setup fails at task Enable base controller firewall ports with the following error message.

    "msg": "ERROR: Exception caught: org.fedoraproject.FirewallD1.Exception: COMMAND_FAILED: 'python-nftables' failed: internal:0:0-0: Error: No such file or directory\n\ninternal:0:0-0: Error: Could not process rule: No such file or directory\n\ninternal:0:0-0: Error: Could not process rule: No such file or directory\n\ninternal:0:0-0: Error: Could not process rule: No such file or directory\n\n\nJSON blob:\n{\"nftables\": [{\"metainfo\": {\"json_schema_version\": 1}}, {\"add\": {\"rule\": {\"family\": \"inet\", \"table\": \"firewalld\", \"chain\": \"filter_IN_public_allow\", \"expr\": [{\"match\": {\"left\": {\"payload\": {\"protocol\": \"tcp\", \"field\": \"dport\"}}, \"op\": \"==\", \"right\": 443}}, {\"match\": {\"left\": {\"ct\": {\"key\": \"state\"}}, \"op\": \"in\", \"right\": {\"set\": [\"new\", \"untracked\"]}}}, {\"accept\": null}]}}}]} Permanent and Non-Permanent(immediate) operation"
}