“The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has labeled the immediate past Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai as a religious bigot whose divisive rule turned the State into Nigeria’s kidnapping and banditry capital within eight years.”
The forum said this in response to the former governor’s claim in a viral video that he and others were working towards the enthronement of Muslim-Muslim rule for 20 unbroken years in Kaduna and at the national level.
Isuwa Dogo, National Publicity Secretary of the MBF, who said this in a statement, in Abuja, on Sunday, advised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani to keep him at an arms length and not allow him sneak into the corridors of power to throw the nation into chaos.
The Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has accused former Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State of being a religious bigot whose divisiveness heralded kidnappings and banditry in Kaduna within eight years. The MBF made these allegations in response to El-Rufai’s confession, in a viral video, that his group was planning for the Muslim-Muslim rule. Isuwa Dogo, the National Publicity Secretary of the MBF, admonished President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, to desist from associating with El-Rufai.
“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.”
The Forum called on Nigerian security operatives to keep watch on the former governor and invite him for questioning. According to the MBF, El-Rufai was merely trying to gain relevance by hiding under the guise of religion. His intended demise of the unity of Nigeria would have catastrophic consequences.
“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 benefited 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.”
The MBF disclosed that the former governor’s meeting with select Muslim clerics exposed his dangerous political motive and religious agenda, thereby proving his complicity in heightening political and religious tension in the country. Despite his denial of the Islamisation agenda, the MBF believes that El-Rufai is a treacherous bigot, whose religious manipulations must not be tolerated.
- “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.”
- “His eight years in power as governor, characterised by 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.”
El-Rufai ruled Kaduna for eight years with a history of massive killings and decimation of predominantly Christian communities, thereby promoting religious subjugation and denying Christians their fundamental rights. The senate once declared him incapable of holding public office due to his unguarded utterances.
“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,” the MBF stated.
Nigerians are now aware of El-Rufai’s chameleonic personality and his treacherous political agenda. Despite his unrelenting denial of the Islamisation agenda, he boldly declares his intentions of enthroning the dominance of one religion over the other. The MBF has, therefore, called on well-meaning Nigerians to be vigilant and resist any attempt to promote religious intolerance in the country.
