Shiite group, the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), has commended the National Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) for withdrawing its invitation to Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State to speak at the association’s annual general conference coming up in August.

NBA had withdrawn its invitation to the governor to speak at its annual conference following criticisms, protests and even threats of boycott from lawyers and others.

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Conference: NBA Withdraws Invitation To El-Rufai After Public Outcry

The IMN in a letter written to NBA and signed by the President of the Movement’s Media Forum, Ibrahim Musa commended the move of the association.

“The Islamic Movement noted that Governor El-Rufai is the most unsuitable person to talk to a body of learned men considering his legendary disrespect for the rule of law, blatant abuses of fundamental rights and intolerance to opposing views.

“El-Rufai has been an agent of impunity and division who supports extra-judicial killings and building of mass graves.

“He, in collaboration with officers of the Nigerian army, attacked members of the Islamic Movement, without recourse to law, leading to the gruesome extrajudicial murder of at least 347 members of the Movement (by the government’s own admission) in December 2015 and hurriedly buried them in mass graves.

“Despite the open confession by the Secretary to the Kaduna State Government, Alhaji Lawal Balarabe Abbas before a Judicial Commission of Inquiry, governor el-Rufai has refused to prosecute the criminal elements who perpetrated these crimes, but rather paradoxically filed charges of conspiracy and culpable homicide against over 250 members of the IMN at Kaduna state high courts.

“Although the Kaduna high courts have since discharged and acquitted all of them, governor el-Rufai has continued to seek further ways to subjugate and persecute members and leadership of the Movement in contravention of his oath of office to “do right to all manners of people according to law, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will.

“Certainly, such a person must not be promoted or allowed to address an Association of learned men, whose motto is “Promoting the Rule of Law.

“We therefore salute your unique courage to stand firmly on the path of what you profess to promote and stamp out – impunity and gross abuse of human rights in our beloved country, which loudly proclaims to operate under the rule of law.”

Gov. El-Rufai has not commented on the latest claim from IMN but has previously denied all the allegations.

He also described the withdrawal of the invitation by NBA as unfair.

“While the decision about who speaks at its event is entirely the NBA’s, Malam Nasir El-Rufai wishes to make clear that he did not seek the platform and is not agitated that he has one less speaking engagement,” said the governor’s Special Adviser on Media and Communication, Muyiwa Adekeye.

Adekeye knocked the NBA for endorsing what he claimed was a one-sided narrative on a profound national issue stressing that it was a matter members of the NBA may wish to reflect upon.

“For an association, whose bread and butter is about justice to make a ruling based on the stridency of people who lampoon judicial processes against certain individuals without hearing the other side is odd. It bears noting that in its response to pressure, the NBA leadership has signaled an unfortunate embrace of injustice, unfairness, absence of fair hearing and total disregard for the rule of law,” it stated,” he stated.

source: https://dailytrust.com/shiites-commend-nba-for-withdrawing-el-rufais-invitation

The Iranian gang in Nigeria have spoken. El Rufai dealt with their leader El Zakzaky after bowing to him to garner votes at a time. If these guys ever get hold of El Rufai without security aides, they will torture him like someone who was caught stealing the used pants of the wife to the North Korean leader.

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They are business partners.

No be small thing o according to Tubaba

Bashir Rufai didn't tell NBA to invite Shites among hia childish useless slogans

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The organizing Committee members of that event are not so intelligent.
They are mediocre


How can you invite El Rufai and Wike as speakers at an event that has to do with the law.

What a befuddled arrangements

femmyapson:
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SmartProf:

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Not all North stands with El-Rufai because of his view on people opinions and views. Because the moment yours crosses his own you automatically enter his black book.

SmartProf:
The Iranian gang in Nigeria have spoken. El Rufai dealt with their leader El Zakzaky after bowing to him to garner votes at a time. If these guys ever get hold of El Rufai without security aides, they will torture him like someone who was caught stealing the used pants of the wife to the North Korean leader.

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A northern govonor is one of the commanders of Boko Haram, while a south west useless professor is their financial secretary

SmartProf:

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He that wears the shoe knows where it pinches... untill you loose a relative or a loved one whose only crime was being Nigerian living in his or her ancestral home.. you would never understand.

When you are ruled by terrorist what else can you expect from their followers

El Rufai seems one of the most disliked politicians in Nigeria. I feel this is a reflection he should work with.

NBA really needs to dissociate itself from all these groups, political or religious, coming on board to take sides on this matter.

They run the risk of creating cracks in their wall through which lizards could crawl in, and that is a situation they really wanna avoid to preserve their reputation.