Nasir El-Rufai
Hello Friends. I have been travelling and try to catch some sleep in between the last 24 hours and missed all the furore arising from my retweet of Ogunyemi Bukola's (@zeebook) joke Maku eat al and Jesus. I must say I am taken aback by the extent of desperate misrepresentation of what was an innocuous attempt to show the godlessness of the Jonathanians to denigrate anyone that dares to ask them to be accountable.

To those who were genuinely offended by the retweet, I apologize. I did not meant to offend anyone, neither did the @zeebook I know and featured as one of the Young Voices in my Friday Column. Jesus or Isa Alaihis Salaam is a respected prophet of Islam. Every Muslim accepts this in addition to his miraculous virgin birth. It is therefore absurd for any Muslim believer to disrespect Jesus Christ.

I hope those in this class will see my point of view and accept my apologies for any offense or disappointment caused. And I advise everyone... to read @zeebook's timeline and mine to read EXACTLY what was tweeted rather than the second-hand reports of certain people who ALWAYS twist whatever I write or not write to achieve their morally-repugnant objectives.

To those in that class of liar - the political contractors who tried to attribute the entire statement to me to destroy perceived political capital, I say keep on doing that till the day your cups will be full. Everything these days is reduced to posturing for 2015,but those doing it do not even know which one of us will be alive to witness the events of that time. I leave all those to God and their conscience.

To the Warriors of God, who misinterpret the Scriptures (both Bilble and Qur'an) and pretend to be capable of fighting His battles, please learn from history. The multiple Crusades and Jihads are yet to convert the entire human race into one religion. If God wished us all to be of one religion, He would have made us so. So please leave God's work to Him, and just be good to other humans.

I thank all my friends who stood up for me in this saga. They know me better than what the desperate Jonathanians want to paint as El-Rufai. An those that wish to know me a little batter should please read my forthcoming book. Thanks and God Bless.

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Nice Reply.
That is the Hypocrisy of Our Christians.

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Nice and Mature response from El-Rufai.

Wise folks know exactly the game being played by the "Jonathanians".....

@OP; Ʊ$£ ur brain and add ur source...

Using Jesus as the standard of perfection is actually great praise! In effect, his standard of right and infallibility is Jesus so where's the perceived insult? Most people seem to read upside down!

Up el-rufia,keeping on educating.

a clear picture of how average core-northern muslim see christians.

he did not know when he voice it out.

you cant keep secret for a long time

Some bad Christians want to copy some bad Muslims in Religion extremism...

ilugunboy: Some bad Christians want to copy some bad Muslims in Religion extremism...

there is nothing like bad christians my friend, rather fake christians.
@OP, El-rufai's comment, irrespective of the intent meaning was not right, our Bible tells us to do not use the name of our God in vain, as a catholic that believes in the mystery of the holy trinity,God the father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, I took offense to that tweet so do many other faithful.

So Late! Ave already Killed 2 Aboki..

He should watch his midget tongue next time

stacomaster: So Late! Ave already Killed 2 Aboki..

seanet01: Nice Reply.
That is the Hypocrisy of Our Christians.

What kind of useless statement is this?

I dey gather boys to born mosque...u can't insult our God

YOUR APOLOGIES CAME LATE. I HAVE SACKED MY ABOKI GATEMAN

seanet01: Nice Reply.
That is the Hypocrisy of Our Christians.

lslamic terrorist.

babyosisi: He should watch his midget tongue next time

Are you high ? He apologized for what he re-tweet and even the original tweet.stop complaining biatch.

Some of the comments here are pretty dumb! First of all elrufai only retweeted the so called 'offensive' joke. Secondly gov't sponsored fools on social media were hired to rubbish the man's name. But as usual, a highly corrupt gov't uses the religious card to play on the sensitivities of nigerians. And from the responses here there are still many stupid nigerians who fall for the trick!

But the danish cartoonist apologized yet scores of dead men graced the ocassion

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ocman: YOUR APOLOGIES CAME LATE. I HAVE SACKED MY ABOKI GATEMAN

9ja voice: a clear picture of how average core-northern muslim see christians.

he did not know when he voice it out.

you cant keep secret for a long time

Out if the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks (the pen writes). What a shame to a man aspiring to rule Nigeria, a multi-religious state.

So we had to wait for an apology before moving the initial report to the front page. A thread on El Rufai's tweet was created around 1am but didn't make the front page until a thread of apology was created some minutes ago.

The earlier some moderators on NL removed their toga of bias and partisanship the better for NL.

@least he didn't deny the tweet like Jonathan n his gang of liars.

Apology accepted

1 of d vry few good pple we've got in this country. Nigerians pls...Enemies pls don't run him down!

Gr8 response dia.

Definitely am not offended by the tweet

El rufai, next time please use mohammed.

Thank you in advance.

I wil forgive u wen I finish my joni to saudi arabia

seanet01: Nice Reply.
That is the Hypocrisy of Our Christians.

our christians? Thank God no house was burnt, no mosque burnt, nobody killed cos i know this Christians can be very rough sometimes, they can get to any extent for Christianity

Celebrities, Politicians....In short anyone over 15 yrs old STAY OFF TWITTER!!

Jeeeeeeez!!!

val_dee: El rufai, next time please use mohammed.

Thank you in advance.

Exactly
Next time let him zip his midget lips and think before letting his fingers go faster than his brain

I know for a fact that if the same joke had been made about their god, Mr Rufai and the rest would have since taken the joker's head with a dagger. Just passing.