El-Rufia Wants To Distabilise Nigeria, MBF Tells Tinubu
The Middle Belt Forum, MBF, the socio-cultural organisation for ethnic nationalities in the Middle Belt Region, has called President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to avoid the immediate former Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufia, stating that he is out to destabilise the country.
The Middle Belt Forum, MBF, the socio-cultural organisation for ethnic nationalities in the Middle Belt Region, has called President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to avoid the immidiate former Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufia, stating that he is out to destablisie the country.
The group, that are mostly Christians of the region, described the former governor as a religious bigot, fanatic and national evil.
The group made the observation in a statement while reacting to El-Rufai’s comments before the clerics against the Christians in Nigeria and Kaduna State.
Recall that El-Rufia had on the eve of his handover ceremony as the outgoing Kaduna State Governor hosted Islamic clerics by inciting them with provocative pronouncements against Christians.
El- Rufia was caught in viral video telling the Muslim preachers of how he, with others, plotted to enthrone the same-faith ticket in the state that was later successfully replicated at the Federal level.
The National Publicity Secretary of the Middle Belt Forum, Dr Isuwa Dogo, in a statement on Sunday, June 18, while reacting to the former governor's statement, said the group denounced El-Rufai’s comments before the clerics as a shameless act of national hypocrisy steeped in the premeditated plot to set adherents of both religions on war path.
According to the group, El-Rufia is nothing but divisive leader, an irredeemable religious extremist, chameleonic personality, man who speaks before he thinks, and a national evil that must be avoided at all costs.
The group warned President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor, Uba Sani of Kaduna State, to be wary of associating with him.
The full statement reads:
The attention of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has been drawn to the condemnation of the provocative pronouncements by the former governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai, while addressing a select group of Islamic clerics after the conclusion of the highly disputed presidential and governorship polls.
In the meeting with Islamic clerics that was conducted on the eve of his departure as Kaduna State Governor, el-Rufai told the preachers on how he, with others, plotted to enthrone the same-faith ticket in the state that was later successfully replicated at the Federal level.
The former governor recalled that he, with others, was determined to ensure the Muslim-Muslim ticket was sustained for another 20 years to ensure Christians come to terms with the indispensability of the same-faith ticket as a panacea for peace in both the State and the Federal level.
What he never told his selected preachers was that the state he ruled and ruined for eight years was turned into Nigeria’s headquarters of kidnappings and human barbarities that led to the murder of tens of thousands of people and decimation of over 100 communities under his watch.
The MBF, as the socio-cultural organisation for ethnic nationalities that are mostly Christians of the Middle Belt Region, is outraged by the deceitful attempts by el-Rufai and his nebulous co-travellers to push our nation down the slippery slope of religious tension and bigotry.
The outrage over the el-Rufai video clip demonstrates the level of disappointment by Nigerians over the former governor’s outburst that was aimed at inflaming religious conflagration in order to destabilise the Nigerian State.
The unfortunate comments by this bigot, who is erroneously thought of as a nationalist and public intellectual, portray him as a divisive leader who not only thrives in creating chaos, but also reveal him as an irredeemable religious extremist whose antecedents as governor showcases him as a treacherous enemy of Nigeria that must be barred from the corridor of power.
Even before now, the Forum has never been deceived by the pretentiousness of the former governor whose stock in trade is divisiveness hidden under the thin covering of a public intellectualism and patriotism.
When the Senate declared the man who speaks before he thinks incapable of holding public office, not a few agreed to the recommendation of the upper chamber of the National Assembly.
Sadly, he found himself in power and unleashed his venom of sadism on both Christians and Muslims. The video clip exposes him as the most contemptible and appalling divider-in-chief.
His hypocrisy and innermost desire to work against the secularity of the Nigerian State have left many to ask: What is this little man, who has benefitted greatly from Nigeria, trying to achieve?
If there has been any doubt of his complicity and dubiousness in the promotion of heightened political and religious tension in Nigeria; his meeting with selected members of Muslim clerics leaves no one in doubt that he is the most dangerous politician in the country today.
His eight years in power as governor, characterised with massive killings and decimation of Christian-dominated areas of Southern Kaduna, can now be understood.
He acted unconcerned with these genocidal attacks on communities located in the south where scores of towns and villages were decimated and tens of thousands killed, including deploying religion to subjugate the area by denying the indigenous groups political appointments.
Now that the cat has been let out of the bag, those unsure of who El-Rufai is, now understand the chameleonic personality of this treacherous politician whose cunningness is most despicable.
Nigerians are now aware that despite denials of the Islamisation agenda, el-Rufai has come out to declare in broad daylight the reasons behind the same-faith ticket; thereby driving the imperatives for citizens to wake up to this orchestrated stratagem of enthroning the dominance of one religion over the other.
There is no doubt that this former governor remains a clear present and future danger to the unity of our nation. He is subtly working for a group that is unremittingly and persistently poised at installing the supremacy of the Islamic faith in the corridor of power.
Both Governor Uba Sani of Kaduna State and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu should be wary of associating with him.
This little but dangerous manipulator, who is skilled in the politics of deploying religious sentiments, must not be allowed near the corridor of power. He has become a national evil that must be avoided at all costs.
The Forum calls on the Nigerian security agencies not only to place the former governor under its radar, but he should be invited by the secret police for a chat.
Considering the comments he made before the clerics, the man who suffers from an inferiority complex must be considered as a dangerous politician riding on the wings of religion for relevance.
We hereby denounce el-Rufai’s comments before the clerics as a shameless act of national hypocrisy steeped in the premeditated plot to set adherents of both religions on war path.
Signed:
DR ISUWA DOGO
(National Publicity Secretary)
Sunday June 18, 2023
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