So during the week some lawyers protested the inclusion of Governor Nasir el Rufai as one of the keynote speakers at the upcoming conference of the Nigeria Bar Association.
They premised their protest on:
1. His constant disobedience of court orders.
2. His persecution (not prosecution please) including imprisonment and possible disappearance of critics, notably Dadiyata, Dr John Danfulani, Steven Kefason, Segun Onibiyo, Gloria Ballason etc.
3. His attitude to and inaction on the massacres going on in Southern Kaduna.
4. His utterances even from before he became governor to date which are rather unpatriotic and unstatemanly to say the least. Etc
The protesters further suggested the replacement of El Rufai by Professor Babagana Zulum the Executive Governor of Borno State.
I supported them and actively contributed in my own little way.
No where in the petition is religion or ethnicity mentioned or even implied.
Interestly, both el rufai and Zulum are governors of states in the north. They are both Muslims and are both non lawyers who have post graduate qualifications.
The biggest deal is that both their states have serious security challenges and their citizens are suffering but this is where the joker comes in.
Governor Zulum is doing everything within his capacity to deal with the crises and help his people. He is usually in the thick of battle and has come in the line of gun fire at least twice. You will always find him in the worst hit crises prone areas and while he has not succeeded in ending the problem, he daily dishes out hope and succor to his people. My people, our people. NO ONE in Borno state feels left out or abandoned and even if you don't like Zulum or are not on his political side you cannot help respecting the man and admiring his style.
You feel the deep desire to want him to succeed and earnestly pray for his success. That is how leadership is and how a leader should be.
I am from Borno State and very proud of Gov Zulum and daily pray for his success.
As for El Rufai, his records abound and the very fact that a section of the people he is supposed to be leading feel he is against them is a harsh verdict on him and his style of governance.
Even while the protests against his participation in the NBA conference were going on, Gov El Rufai had the police in his state evict a man and his family from a house in contravention of a valid court order on Tuesday.

The protest against el rufai was about:
Leadership
Governance
Statesmanship
Constitutionality and the rule of law
Respect for the fundamental rights of citizens
And service.

It was not about religion and ethnicity and we should not reduce it to that.

By Ahamad Tijani Balori

Thank you

Well, not all of them are bigoted extremists. most of them get sense like my Northern NYSC paddies back then. Though we all know Nigeria is more divided than some years back and i'm not sure of it getting better.X

Nigeria has been irrevocably divided along religious lines by cretins like El Rufai, see what we’re facing as a country now