Fani Kayode tweets
You are planning to rig the election and you know that the only way you can possibly “win” is by announcing fake results. You threaten foreigners that any of them that interferes with ur rigging plans will go home in body bags. You are playing with fire and it will consumme you!
Dele Momodu tweets
I PRAY MY DEAR BROTHER NASIR EL RUFAI WILL WITHDRAWAL THAT UNFORTUNATE THREAT… I’M HIS FAN…
Nigerian Governor, El-Rufai, Threatens murder of Foreign Officials over upcoming elections..
Shehu Sani
The
threat to kill foreigners who ‘interfere’ in Nigeria’s elections is a
condemnable act. Nigerians & the Intl community must take this
seriously.D sources & plots of violence is now clear.While our mind
is set on ballot boxes & votes,their’s is set on bulets,bodybags
& coffins.
Reno Omokri Tweets
Today, I woke up in shock to watch a television interview by Mallam Nasir
El-rufai,
the Governor of Kaduna State, on the Nigerian Television Authority
where he threatened Nigeria’s friends with death if they intervened in
Nigeria to save democracy.
El-rufai’s exact words were “we are
waiting for the person that will come and intervene, they will go back
in body bags.” Shocking as his words may be, this is vintage El-Rufai, a
man who talks carelessly, especially when he is off his medications.
I
first encountered El-rufai in 2009 when he was in exile in the United
States and the next year, 2010, he appealed to me to help him write a
letter to foreign governments, calling on them to INTERVENE in Nigeria
(the very thing he speaks against now).
El-rufai’s latest
incidence of hypocrisy is the most recent in a long line of hypocritical
actions by a man who has no morals and acts without conscience. Permit
me to give a few instances of his previous acts of hypocrisy;
On
October 1, 2015, Nasir El-rufai falsely alleged that former President
Jonathan spent a whopping 64 billion naira on Independence Day
celebrations, during his tenure when in fact only 333 million naira was
spent. He was exposed as a liar by then SGF Babachir.
After he was
exposed as a liar by Babachir, Nasir El-rufai neither apologised nor
showed any remorse. It must be stated that it was the Secretary of the
Government of the Federation under the Muhammadu Buhari Government that
exposed El-Rufai’s lies.
Nigerians may also recall that on
September 10, 2014, this same El-rufai falsely accused former President
Jonathan and former CAN President, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor of founding
and funding Boko Haram to the tune of N50 billion.
El-rufai, who
is notorious for spreading falsehood, engineered the arrest and
prosecution of one Audu Maikori, who erroneously tweeted about some
killings in Kaduna that had not happened and almost immediately
apologised after he learnt of his error.
El-rufai’s former boss,
Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, who brought him to the limelight, had
this to say about Nasir El-Rufai in his book: My Watch Volume 2 as
follows:
“Nasir’s penchant for reputation savaging is almost pathological”
Continuing,
Obasanjo said “I heard of how El-rufai ruthlessly savaged the
reputation of his uncle, a man who was like his foster father. I shudder
when I heard the story of what he did to his half-brother in the Air
Force who is senior to him in age.”
Given such an evaluation,
the international community is advised to treat El-rufai with the
contempt he deserves. This is a man who boasted that he paid public
funds to marauders who killed his own people, because he shares ethnic
affinity with them.
Let me, Reno Omokri, as a Nigerian citizen,
apologise to all friends of Nigeria, who have been threatened by this
reckless fellow. Your friendship with Nigeria is appreciated and the
flippant El-rufai DOES NOT speak for us in any capacity at all.
El-rufai’s
views are his private views and they cannot bind Nigeria’s armed
forces, nor mislead them to fight our international friends. El-Rufai
has caused enough deaths in Kaduna. He should take his body bags there.
Finally, I urge El-rufai, to rather urge
President
Buhari to stop releasing ‘repentant’ Boko Haram members and use the
body bags he referred to on them instead. He should remember that when
he and Buhari are sick, they rush to these same people he threatened.
Aisha Yesufu tweets
Also
weighing in, Aisha Yesufu, co-convener of the BringBackOurGirls, BBOG,
advoacy group warned El-Rufai, adding that body bags already exist in
APC government.
Aisha, on her Twitter page, wrote: “Dear Governor
Nasir El Rufai, just so you know, nobody has the monopoly of violence!
You keep waving violence at us as if you alone own it. You don’t!
“Body bags we already are used to in APC government! Zamfara bled yesterday. They have been bleeding. We all have bled!”
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