Nasir El-Rufai On President Jonathan's “Spectre Of Biafra”: Matters Arising

I have read through EL-Rufai's correspondence and see him more truthful in the way he places his words. I pitied my educated brothers in the South. I am a southerner also in which we couldn't be objective in the way we think. Nothing is forever. One day GEJ will leave office and the questions before us will be his achievements. 4 yrs or 8 yrs will be like yesterday as June 12 anniversary is 18 and seems like yesterday. GEJ has all the opportunity to remain in our heart for a very long time after his exit in office but if care is not taken GEJ tenure will be the worst remembered in history. A lot of propangada out there is to polish GEJ rather than true result. Unfortunately, it is these southern brothers that will hit him hard if he underperformed. Why not tell him the truth and guide him to greatness.

This has really shown that you are a first illitrate about your subject matter of history. Please know El Rufai very well before you compare him with your history topic. It clearly shows your historical bankrupcy your own country event. It's a pity how people writes.

This has really shown that you are a first illitrate about your subject matter of history. Please know El Rufai very well before you compare him with your history topic. It clearly shows your historical bankrupcy your own country event. It's a pity how people writes.

This has really shown that you are a first illitrate about your subject matter of history. Please know El Rufai very well before you compare him with your history topic. It clearly shows your historical bankrupcy your own country event. It's a pity how people writes.

In the 1980s when Nasir el-Rufai was a student, he was at the forefront of Muslim Student Society, MSS- where he got his first rostrum to articulate his likes and dislike in Nigerian society, especially on such matters as religion and ethnicity. El-Rufai later joined that most militant Muslim sect, the Izala group, founded by followers of a famous Islamic teacher and jurist, Abubakar Gumi-Gumi. El-Rufai participated in series of religios riots masterminded by Maitatsine, and his lieutenants in Kano 1980, Maiduguri 1982, Gombe 1985 and in Zaria/Kafanchan 1987. Even when OBJ lunched his book, Nzeogwu, El-Rufai and his friends in the Izala Muslin group organised the burning of copies of Nzeogwu. In fact, OBJ is aware of what is inside the egg and to have a peaceful administration, OBJ appointed this Muslim militant, El-Rufia, the FCT boss.
Will Muslim Militants give GEJ's admin. peace of mind ? Umu Oke -Germany

@Crispo, please make sure you are aware of your facts before you start spreading falsehood. The opportunity to make comment should not be contrued for a licence to mislead followers. To correct you, Sambo is a hausa/fulani man from Zaria just like El-Rufai. The only person you may choose to call a Gwari man amongst them is IBB. So please take note and desist from commenting on issues that you are not conversant with. Stop spreading ethnic and religious bigotry. Although, I can see you are one. And since Jonathan will be sworn on 29 May, Why not advice him to arrest them for the ICC prosecution, and stop distraction us from important issues.

Well u know what? El Rufai, Buhari, Ribadu, IBB, Atiku and Gusua are all Fulanis. So, its unthinkable for them to see Sambo, a Gwari become the VP. Abacha was not Fulani. He died on the throne. Murtala Mohamed is also not Fulani. He was killed by them. Now an Ijaw man has been elected to preside over the affairs of a failed nation. What then should we expect from the stable where the Born to Rule horses are being bred by El Rufai? Nothing but more of the trouble they swore to give Jona. Less the urge for us to go our separate ways because of the oil wells! .

The truth about the nigerian civil war can never be fully appreciated until a RED SPOT is inserted to the middle white of the nigerian green-white-green flag. Remember that Obassanjo once claimed that it was oil that caused the Biafra seccession and not the pogrom. Such provocative utterances will continue to be heard until we have an indelible reminder.

The blood of the unborn foetuses that were yanked out of their mothers' wombs and the tens of thousands of children slaughtered in the North in the 60s are crying for justice and vengeance. Their only crime was that they were nyamiri.

As long as there is time, just like the Nazis, the guilt of the North can never be blotted out.

The poverty, chronic backwardness and disease that is perennially plaguing the North is a testimony to the burden of curse they are bearing. And it will not get better.

Charlatans and hypocrites like this opportunistic mallam called El Rufai, make Nigeria an impossible place! But they will be defeated! It's impossible to think of a Nigeria: prosperous, egalitarian, developed, and democratic, without the Igbos! Those who want our history and struggles for justice to be brushed aside, amidst their insincere, hegemonistic, and bigoted quest for power in Nigeria, will always fail!

Ibrahim Saeed talked of writer sensing fresh air. It then means Ibrahim Saeed knew that he and his had been having a choking hold on some people in this Nigeria. When are you and yours letting go of your choke-hold on some people in this country? Saeed tasked this administration under whose tenure we had witnessed the least fuel crisis to stop fuel shortage. Good. But which groups led Nigeria to the extent her refineries packed up? Which group did very silly things to the extent of spending Nigeria's money digging and laying pipes from the Atlantic Ocean to Kaduna to have a refinery? When shall the refinery work to serve us fuel? Who ruled Nigeria and forgot that Nigeria's electricity supply infrastructure must be replenished once in a while? Saeed! Leave your choke-hold and let the country develop.

IGBO DEVELOPMENTAL PRESENCE IN ABUJA IRKED EL RUFAI SO MUCH THAT HE HAD THE EFFRONTRY TO OPINE THAT THE SOUTH EAST SHOULD NOT HAVE ANOTHER STATE BECAUSE IGBOS OWN ABOUT 70% OF THE HOTELS AND HOUSES IN ABUJA WHICH SHOULD BE REGARDED AS ONE OF THE IGBO STATES!

AS A SCION OF THOSE WHO ORGANISED THE MASACRES OF IGBOS IN JOS AND KANO IN 1945 AND 1953 RESPECTIVELY AND THE WAVES OF POGROMS IN THE NORTH WHICH PRECEEDED THE CIVIL WAR, LITTLE WONDER THAT ANY MENTION OF BIAFRA IS CONSIDERED AN ANATHEMA.

FOR TACITLY SUPPORTING THE 2011 POST ELECTION VIOLENCE IN THE NORTH WITH HIS BROTHER GOVERNOR IN ADDITION TO THE DESTRUCTION OF COMMON PEOPLE'S HOUSES AS FCT MINISTER, EL RUFAI HAS EARNED THE IGNOBLE AWARD OF REACTIONARY MASTER SERIAL VANDAL AND AS SUCH, SHOULD NEVER BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY PROGRESSIVE MINDED NIGERIANS.

FOR SOMEONE WHO CAME INTO NATIONAL LIMELIGHT THROUGH PATRONAGE BY POLITICAL GODFATHERS TO ENGAGE IN REACTIONARY SOPHISTRY IS NOT SURPRISING.

HERE IS A MAN WHO FAILED WOEFULLY IN BUREAU FOR PUBLIC ENTERPRISES, GOT COMPENSATED WITH A JUICY OFFICE OF MINISTER OF FCT WHICH HE RAN NOT ONLY LIKE EMPEROR NERO BUT ALSO VISITED WITH ALL MANNER OF CORRUPTION PLUS VICTIMISATION OF POLITICAL OPPONENTS OF HIS PAYMASTERS. IN ADDITION, HE SUPERINTENDED OVER THE MASSIVE DESTRUCTION OF THE SHELTERS OF COMMON PEOPLE ONLY TO REGRET THAT HE SHOULD HAVE PROVIDED ALTERNATIVES BEFORE HAND!WHERAS THE COMMON PEOPLE PAID DEARLY FOR THE SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION OF THE FCT, THE MINISTERS WHO SUPERINTENDED OVER THE MALFEASANCE WERE LEFT UNSCATHED.

Biafra will continue to haunt the failed state that is Nigeria until kingdom come. Nothing will ever work.
Issues about Biafra must be sorted. Igbos are rootless, rudderless and not part of this idiot country. Charlatans have been imposed in each national party to represent the south east to compound this lack of direction. No roads, no electricity, no infrastructure and armed barbarians are kidnapping in the zone to discourage people from returning with their families to develop the zone. By holding us down, you hold yourselves down. Free igbos to go with reparations and Nigeria would see peace and development. When the president refers to the spectre of Biafra, then the handwriting is on the wall. Free us from Nigeria and we'll sort out our useless imposed leaders and get on with our lives.

@Adedayo01, you are a fool for faulting this writer. I read the same article by El Rufai since then he lost my respect. The article really exposed him to me as a fraudulent, opportunist man. What was El Rufai's response to the killing? Did he make any statement concerning future leaders who were gruesomely murdered in cold blood? In stead, El Rufai was in US making provocative political statements. El Rufai is a thief, a criminal who profits from frauds called Nigeria. Now I know that Yaradua was not mistaken in charging this idiot for fraud. And he will go to jail. I am not a supporter of GEJ but my pain is the politicking of sorrow, lost of hopes and pain of lives that were snuffed out by El Rufai's supporters. El Rufai is an hypocrite, his power calculation failed woefully. The same man was part of 2007 massive rigging of Yaradua into Aso Rock, he has no moral,and he is worse than an infidel.

Ben,
I thought you are a journalist, just repor
t the news, which I hope was culled from sunday sun.I did remember mr president saying that "no body should die for any person political ambitions" he did not visit any election victims , this 5millions he gave out to corp members family is because his people are involved.Please be balanced in future reports, el-rufai is better than that mr president, his tenure as FCT minister testify to that can you give the same testimony of mr president?

I first met El-Rufai while he was DG of BPE in 1998, and at that time he was seducing two Youth Corpers named Rahila Onya and Heidi; in any event he departed after the Pentascope Nitel fiasco to be appointed Minister of the FCT whereupon OBJ used him to bulldoze and seize the residential properties of his political enemies; but at this time Malam El-Rufai also corruptly enriched himself be allocating choice properties to immediate and distance relatives of his to the detriment of majority of Nigerians. It is only in Nigeria that a corruptionist like him who is still facing criminal charges can comment on national issues and be taken seriously; what sanctimonious piety! El Rufai is looking for political relevance, I hope he doesn't get it. He should cover his face in shame.

It's obvious that whoever wrote this rubbish is on the payroll of PDP's propaganda warchest.

I read the El-Rufai interview in its entirety and it was right on point. Couldn't fault anything in it. You know the truth is bitter. But don't you guys have any sense of pride or shame? Must you regurgitate whatever you're fed? Shame!

If you've got any brains at all, go and advise your Jonathan on how to fulfill the gargantuan electoral promises he made.

The massacre of the Igbo in northern Nigeria which culminated in the rebellion and a subsequent thirty-month civil war can never be wished away and will ever remain a valid and legitimate reference point in our history as a country.Only those who want history to repeat itself would think otherwise,the northern politicians(INCUDING EL-RUFAI)instead of working hard to erase this culture of sponteanous orgies of exra-judicial murders that has become a common pass-time in thier northern domain are rather blaming the president

The President's refrence was not made in isolation, it was called for and the sooner the blockbrains can understand this, the better for this disfunctional "unity" of ours."if you dont know where you are coming from, you wont know where you are going to".

With you as President even though, you are the best of the rubbish, that put themselves to be President in the last election. Nigeria will be great and deserves to be great, when we go back to the drawing board, discard all the idiots, crooks, looters, thieves and chalathans that, have chocked the present day Nigeria polity. Nigeria is blessed with abundant human and material resourses. Any nation will do any thing to have what Nigeria has. Nigeria one day will get a Chief Obafemi Awolowo or a General Murital Muhhammed again. These two great men could have given Nigeria it deserves. Goodluck Jonathan if you are prepared to be a Chief Obafemi Awolowo or a Genaral Muritala Mohhammed, then you can make Nigeria great. The lacuna is the people around you and the PDP.

Its serves GEJ right. Was it not the same visionless idiot GEJ, who ordered his Chief of Army Staff to bomb his own people in Ayakoroma? Has he been bold enough to drop a bomb against Bako Haram? The presidency of GEJ will never benefit the people of the South South. He is like a political flyer pasted to work for the tripod. That is the trouble with his presidency. So kudos to El Rufai for telling him that, (although I eat with you in my house u are nobody) Not the type he wants as president. Its not about PDP. Its about the person of Jona, who shamelessly directed soldiers to arrest John Togo for his mentor El Rufai. 4yrs is just around the corner. Soon he will be home in Bayelsa state.

If there is any Nigerian who is not qualified to talk on national issues, its El Rufai. A man who confiscated Atikus house to himself. A crook who is supposed to be in jail. Was it not the same El Rufai who went about paying hotel bills for female youth corpers who served in his ministry? Its only in Nigeria we see such men with questionable characters come out in public to say he will vote for Ribadu because he is his brother and not Jonathan. Whom he said has nothing in his head. Is El Rufai more educated than Jona? Was he not made by Atiku and OBJ? A man who sold land to his girlfriend, relations in Abuja and could not account for funds in FCT should be told to shut up. Did he campaign for Buhari in the East for one day?

Truth be told, comments by El Rufai, Sagay and Keyamo on Jona, shld be seen as an insult 2 the S/S and the people of the S/E. If CPC had any solid bases in these two zones, the humans there are enlightened enough to protest against the alleged rigging machine of the PDP. Aka Okarocha Vrs Ohakim. Its not the business of some misguided youths imported from Chad, to protest or murder over 1,000 Nigerians 4 Buhari. It took Buhari 2 days to appeal to the rioters. Jona spoke the same day. Where was d voices of these trio when Buhari urged voters to be lynched? Were they in a coma? Was Bakare attacked by d talakawas 4 not winning a state for CPC in the South West? El Rufai is yet to recover from the defeat of Buhari by little Jona! And an opportunist afraid of the 6 geo poli zones going their separate ways one day!

 El-rufai is already popular and does not need your publicity, you need to realize, that the uprising in the north was directional in the begining before your likes infilitrated, those stick and cutlass wielding youths, afterall they were busy taking a pound of flesh from their elders by burning their houses and assetsof the chieflooters of our common wealth but by the second day you people infiltrated them to start killing there neighbours, we know your hands are bloody and we are sure that time will also catch up with those responsible for our qualms. non the less me iam not in suport of arson neither do i cosent to murder. Obudu was not the right place for a president to retire when the nation is under seige by his action. it was like bush jr. @ primary sch. foto-opptnty when the twin building were under attack.

Whether the writer of this commentary is un-informed or not, what I see in the Nigerian nation is a case where the political class and those who think they are informed cause disaffections among the seemingly unemployed youths...fanning the embers of regionism and basking under uneven demand for control of power at the centre.
As for those who think El-rufai of El-furia is representing them sorry......

Even though i have no single regard for El-rufai, cos he is like a blood to human flesh to the problems of Nigeria, he (Elrufai) actually gave a very insightful interview about the case in point. We know that El-rufai is one of the closest ally of president Jonathan and their political Godfather OBJ. Whatever he said is spot on and aptly described. What i cant say for sure is wether Nasir is still advancing the conspiracy theory of the PDP.

D problem wit people like emeka is that they are politically enslave by pdp to such an extend that every sincere and patriotic statement made by political and technocratic actors instead of taking it in gud faith n even advise d appropriate authority in that regad but d always give it a political under tune and always defend there political pay masters whether they are right or wrong.nigeria wil never develop in this kind of a political atmosphere.after all jeg has a history of political mis-yearning.god save this country.

Nigeria is a country that is seriously afraid of its own shadow, a nation where rouges are considered elites and elites are economic refugees in foreign lands.

People like El Rufia talk in Nigeria not because he has the brain but because he could serve a lords that selected him to serve his purpose. And maybe he served him well on their terms.

El Rufia is not ashamed that for the whole time the northerners ruled, the average northern child has nothing to be proud of rather the economic divide simply widened.

No memtion of Biafra lest the genocide commited against then come to light. Atiku always kicked against the media talking about MASSOB activities so that the reason for their struggle should not come to light.

What has El Rufia done to challenge Jonathan, Who is El Rufia? Sorry, I know that all he is doing is to seek popularity, continue to beg for sympathy, Mr future president. Haters of peace.

Mr Okereke you have got your "fresh air" president and we need to breath the fresh air. Can he stop the fuel crisis he created? Again this talk of N5 Billion for inauguration is it true. Nigerians must try to grow out of these periferal issues to the real problem of corrupt leadership. We are wasting time and ink on semantics and arguments that have no bearing to the direction our country is heading.
All I can hear from you is not how you got petrol today, or wether you sleep with light yestarday, but a load of irrelevance from another irrelevant argument of El-Rufai.

I got dissapointed in the article right from the begining and even realized that it was written by Rena Omokiri using another name. But the uninformed and unintelligent was ascribing the statistics on the number of people who died to HURIWA instead of Human Rights Watch. It shows he is not even informed to comment but that he just set out to malign the brilliant and blunt expose of the crisis by El-Rufai. My advise to this Lazy shoe licker is for him to go and develop his intellectual capability before you can write commentaries here.