The words of war between Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, and the Christian Association of Nigeria CAN has taken a dangerous dimension.

 

Today, 18.09.2013, the umbrella body of Nigerian Christian youth organizations, Christian Youth Vanguard (CYV),

 

The threat is a reaction to earlier comments against Jesus Christ credited to Mallan Nasir El-Rufai, the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, and his accusation of Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria as a political stooge in the hands of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). 

 

The National Coordinator Yakubu Mecham and Secretary Emeka  Okoli of CYV stated El-Rufai’s uncomplimentary remarks against CAN, Oritsejafor and the Christian faith in Nigeria as bad and “… someone needs to help EL- Rufai before he goes completely mental.”

 

The NYV recalled how El- Rufai recently “in his usual fit of madness made blasphemous and abominable tweets about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” adding “and it was swept under the carpet for peace sake.”

 

The group queried what would have happened if such a blasphemous remark made against Jesus Christ was made against Prophet Mohammed and warned that enough is enough.

 

“Enough of this insults on our Christian faith and our CAN President! The CYV (which is a coalition of various Christian Youth Groups spread all over Nigeria) hereby notify El – Rufai and his group of unpatriotic Nigerians that we will not sit back and tolerate insults aimed at our Christian leader any longer.

 

“We wish to stress very emphatically that henceforth any further careless statements, comments or insults on our Faith or on the person of our CAN President will be reciprocated in equal measure. A word, they say, is enough for the wise.

 

The group berated E-Rufai for saying that CAN President had become an appendage of Aso Rock in Abuja, a status it said should befit the Sultan of Sokoto better.

 

“Come to think of it, between our CAN President and the Sultan of Sokoto who is more guilty of those inglorious remarks by El-Rufai? Does El- Rufai not know that the Sultan’s second office outside Sokoto is at Aso Villa where he gets a lot of patronage? Does he not know that there is hardly any State Governor who does not host the Sultan at close intervals?

 

“Or where he cannot go, they go to him? It is common knowledge that the Sultan who doubles both as religious and traditional leader of Muslims in Nigeria is involved in all kinds of political consultations and other activities not worthy of his exalted position, why is El-Rufai and his cohorts not attacking the Sultan with such disparaging comments?”

 

 

The Christians youth groups wondered what the CAN President had done to El-Rufai to warrant the kind of insults he had hipped on the man of God and the entire Christian Community in Nigeria and also called Muhammadu Buhari a bigot.

 

“Is it because the CAN President was bold enough to call for the arrest of a bigot, a serial election loser, a Muslim fanatic and a morally bankrupt man called Muhammadu Buhari? Is it not a well known fact that the unguarded statements and dangerous incitement by Buhari at a very critical and volatile time, laid the foundation for the insurgencies we are witnessing in most northern states today?

 

“This unpatriotic Nigerian who by absolute error of judgment and circumstance became a military Head of State has now recruited a mad dog like El- Rufai, who revels in controversy at all times to be his hatchet man for the purpose of heating up the polity to achieve their devilish purpose”, CYV alleged.

 

The coalition said that for El-Rufai to make such uncomplimentary remarks against the leader of the Christian faith in Nigeria, clearly shows that he lacks respect for the Sultan of Sokoto who is the spiritual leader of the Muslim faith which El- Rufai claims to profess, “but is worse than a paganism”

 

It said, “If El-Rufai does not have respect for the sanctity of life, let him start by destroying his immediate family, then we will be convinced that he means to cause mayhem to other Nigerians through his senseless and wicked utterances against our CAN President and leader of the Christian faith in Nigeria.”

 

According to the coalition, El-Rufai and his supporters should come to terms with the fact that Christians in Nigeria were not timid or afraid of trouble “but are simply God-fearing and peace loving.”

 

It said further: “The fact that our current CAN President is bold to speak out correctly when things go wrong in the society is unsettling to the likes of El- Rufai who still belong to the old era of impunity and suppression of Christians in Nigeria.

 

“This same El-Rufai it was who used his evil mouth to confess then that his new pay master Buhari is absolutely unfit to rule his village, talk less of his State Katsina and Nigeria at large in a democratic setting. Without shame, and having lost relevance in the current dispensation, El- Rufai has swallowed his vomit and gone back to Buhari to form an evil alliance to fight the government and highly respected personalities, including those who took him and his family out of the gutter and gave him a new lease of life. It is evident that El- Rufai has an unstable character which is gradually leading him to madness.

 

“Unfortunately, it is only in Nigeria where the likes of El-Rufai who is standing trial for criminal offences while in office both as head of BPE and as FCT Minister that will have the mouth to make public comments. This is a man who criminally shared government land to his wives and children at the expense of overriding public interest and should be in jail, away from responsible people,” the group concluded. 

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