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My Comment To Kill Foreign Interveners During Election Doesn’t Contain Violence – El-Rufai

Nasir El-rufai, Kaduna State Governor, has claimed his comment, to kill foreigners who intervenes during the forthcoming general elections, does not contains violence.

Mr El-rufai came under criticism on Wednesday for threatening to sniff out lives of foreigners who do not mind their businesses as Nigerians goes to elect its leaders next week.

The governor specifically stated that those who will loose their lives will be sent back to their countries in body bags.

His comments has forced the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to threaten withdrawal from the peace accord it signed last year.

In a statement by his spokesperson, Samuel Aruwan, the governor on Wednesday said his comments does not contains violence.

In his clarification El-rufai said he was being patriotic by making such comments.

THE STATEMENT IS FULLY REPRODUCED BELOW:

A notorious trait of the characters that constitute the opposition in Nigeria is the manufacture of outrage on flimsy grounds. However, contriving anger on false premises and summoning a din of feverish commentary will not alter the facts. Election season is regarded as silly season in some quarters, but it is a very serious moment.

When Malam Nasir El-Rufai appeared on NTA’s Tuesday Night Live, he made comments every patriot can understand. He stood up for Nigeria’s dignity in the wake of those who would traduce their country and reduce it to the status of a colony in their vain quest for power.

The video of his comments is in circulation. Any fair-minded person with modest familiarity with the English language and unimpaired comprehension can understand it. It does not contain any call for violence. What it is a powerful defence of sovereignty. Are some sections of our political class implying that they will acquiesce in or collaborate with foreign intervention in our country?

Affirming that a country will defend itself against needless intervention is the kind of statement you expect to hear from a patriot. It is not a call for violence. Warning about the consequences of meddling in another country’s affairs is legitimate.

Non-interference in the affairs of other countries is a basic principle of international law. Threatening to intervene in another country implies the use of force. Those who are basing their electoral calculations on foreign intervention need to be discouraged. Only the lawful votes of the Nigerian people should make or unmake governments.

Malam Nasir El-Rufai has issued a powerful call for vigilance and a clear notice that other countries should not mistake the supine posture of the opposition for national weakness.

Malam Nasir El-Rufai has stood firmly against those who have been trying to divide Nigerians on ethnic and religious lines. He is resolutely opposed to violence, and firmly committed to peace and harmony.

Let the false outrage stop.

Source: https://politicstimesng.com/my-comments-on-foreign-intervention-during-election-doesnt-contain-violence-el-rufai/

PDP crying over every little thing

Yeye damage control, so patriotism will make you threaten the lives of foreigners, you are a terrorist and a coward

Body bags are used to carry dead bodies

So in other words he will kill them and put them inside body bags then send them back home

That's incitement of violence look out for white men they won't say anything now until one person dies then he will appear in Hague and join Charles Taylor

Lol, What useless Independence are you fighting for

The British man created you and even named you, yet this malam is here yanning dust!

El rufai, your real independence is to cut the North out of Nigeria! Fight for that, but I'm sure you won't, cause of oil, ole!

British man came and join several countries together and you are here claiming that you are independent, independent from what exactly?

Where will you get money for body bags if you don't go to Abuja every month on your knees begging for money like a 2 dollar hoooe

God please let this country divide!!

Believe it or not, Hell rufai is among the sponsors of book Haram. That man is evil. An open hater of Christians. I would prefer Buhari wins than Elrufai wining Kaduna. That man is on a mission to finish the Christians in Kaduna state.

El rufai is a known terrorist!

This man na comfirm terrorist. He has been a de facto protagonist of hate speech. Nigerians should monitor this man closely.

Why will a foreigner want to intervene in our internal affairs anyway? Any foreigner caught intervening beyond what is allowed diplomatically should be dealt with. No country will willfully allow foreigners to intervene in their internal politics.

Please Trump, just send a quick delivery to hell rufai

seunmsg:
Why will a foreigner want to intervene in our internal affairs anyway?

Did you watch the clip? He said they shouldn't lecture us!

So for Lecturing us, they will go back in body bags

madridguy:
PDP crying over every little thing

Na so hellrufai go dey for foreigners hand and nothing can happen.

seunmsg:
Why will a foreigner want to intervene in our internal affairs anyway? Any foreigner caught intervening beyond what is allowed diplomatically should be dealt with. No country will willfully allow foreigners to intervene in their internal politics.

And dealing with them diplomatically means sending them home dead, right?

Your posts lack moral rectitude, reek of constant bias, and never see anything evil in evil itself.

He's aware the international community have already rejected them.

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seunmsg:
Why will a foreigner want to intervene in our internal affairs anyway? Any foreigner caught intervening beyond what is allowed diplomatically should be dealt with. No country will willfully allow foreigners to intervene in their internal politics.

Well if anyone should complain about foreign interference,it shouldnt be you,El-rufai and your APC because you guys have flooded the entire Northern region with folks from Niger Republic!!..There has never been any case of foreign interference in our election except for APC's desperate Niger republic attachment

EU has released a statement regarding your threats to "foreign interference" being taken away in "body bags" ..according to them they will do their job including reporting cases of electoral fraud and manipulation of result which is all your evil Party is banking on..

We double-dare you all to carry out your threats..pathetic folks.

El rufai will soon meet his doom

madridguy:
PDP crying over every little thing

Hehehe.. if u weren't a paid to be zombie.. you would see that in everything they wrote there to defend d midget.. it made no sense.. no clarification of the body bag statement.. continue oo

Coward, he’s now retracting his earlier utterance. They have told him the repercussions and he has hurried to twist the nonsense he said earlier.

Chai! I regret that God made me to share nationality with this killer called El-Rufai.

But hate speech is so easily expressed in Nigeria. Imagine the heading of this trend

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seunmsg:
Why will a foreigner want to intervene in our internal affairs anyway? Any foreigner caught intervening beyond what is allowed diplomatically should be dealt with. No country will willfully allow foreigners to intervene in their internal politics.

[/s]And where were you when the APC hypocritically did same in 2015 and allowed the massive Nigerien delegation to participate in the Buhari Kano's
Presidential rally? Do it with some sense man.

Too late El-rufai. Your time is up already

Mad one.

I pray this elrufai kills someone and let it be an Israeli

Killing of Christians under your watch is "patriotic" too.

seunmsg:
Why will a foreigner want to intervene in our internal affairs anyway? Any foreigner caught intervening beyond what is allowed diplomatically should be dealt with. No country will willfully allow foreigners to intervene in their internal politics.

Nigerian politicians can make an intelligent person looks like a
slowpoke. While you are busy trying to justify this diplomatic gaffe by El Rufia, I am sure the APC leadership will prevail on Rufai to withdraw that statement.

Hope Niger are also foreigners