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Nasir El-Rufai Seeking Political Favours or the Vice President’s Seat? by Steve Limid

February 13, 2010

El-Rufai  haba now?  All the money wey you chop as Minister no belly full you? All the Land wey you grab, all una stuffs wey you buy through BPE no be enough? haba Now you wan be Vice President after una time as Vice president under Obasanjo?

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Rumours has it that you and Mr Ribadu did indeed tried to pressure Obasanjo into handing the PDP presidential ticket and it was said that he refused citing that Nigeria was too big for you to handle. I was forced into writing this article due to El-Rufai’s comment in our beloved THISDAY newspaper, where he revealed that a pro-yar’adua Group met in Saudi to strategies plans on how to tackle Jonathan and that he got wind of it through a lawyer who was meant to initiate legal proceedings that would destabilize Jonathan’s government and leave him vulnerable come 2011. For years El-rufai has managed to manipulate our feelings to sympathise with him over his long battle with late or living Yar’adua, but this statement has opened my eyes to who and what el-rufai was really fighting for. This submission by him was nothing more than a fallacy and an attempt to turn Jonathan against the group in Saudi so that he can improve his chances of becoming a viable candidate for the Vice Presidential seat. The group in Saudi decided on that trip to try and get access to Yar’adua; the inclusion of his in-laws was meant to add more pressure on the Saudi government to give them access to Yar’adua. Mallam just a reminder in case you don’t have access to Nigerian newspapers in your luxury suite in Dubai, A Governor’s forum Meeting was held a couple of weeks ago and it was resolved to pass a motion to pressure the Senate into passing a legislation to allow Jonathan to function as an acting President, the Saudi group that you mention were among the 31 governors that were in attendance and were in full support of the motion so why will they of all a sudden be against Jonathan?

 Mallam just because you perceive something does not make it real, we have not forgotten your arrogance and the suffering you cost people, the only sympathy you have are from sycophants and not well thinking Nigerians, you were persecuted by Yar’adua for a wrong you did him not because you were protecting us the masses, am sure if you were a member of his Kitchen cabinet, the story would have been different. You have lost any moral defence; we are still nursing the wounds from your arrogance as a minister. I know most readers may find the title of my write up offensive but I felt the need to point out and remind people of our past so that we don’t make the same mistake over again. I like most Nigerians don’t have a Harvard Degree but we know when someone is trying to hoodwink us, we recall how you threw your Godfather to the trailer to elevate yourself, we knew how you hired some college graduates and paid them thousands of dollars in salaries for doing nothing and we also knew how you manage to allocate land worth millions if not billions to your family members. We Nigerians know that your wife will have never come close to getting a land in Maitama or Asokoro if it was not for your position as a Minister, your attempt of saying she is a Nigerian and entitle to land allocation is right but for her to bid and get a land that was taken away from someone else by your administration is just you trying to AONDOAKAA us. There is a saying that goes”if someone dance in a market and gets paid, another person will be punished if he tried the same act” because Baba Iyabo went from prison to the presidency does not mean you will ride your high horse to the Vice presidential Seat, Jonathan Greatest Mistake will be to trust anything that comes out of your Mouth. Mallam I don’t know if my writing will met your Harvard or Elite Standard to deserve a rebuttal, but if i do get one, may I ask you to please be honest in your defence and don’t use some of your common lines which we are all too familiar with, I have drafted a list of what you can avoid in other not to make you sound a bit cliché.    

  1. We are familiar with your voice rising and name calling, so I will advise a more Educated response.
  2. A Habit of invoking God, we all believe in God and we will answer to him some day.
  3. Your response of am trying to help and unite Nigeria, will you say that is what you did when you participated in imposing and rigging elections that saw Yar’adua’s accession to power? I hope you will Forgive us if we find that hard to believe.
  4. That you are no longer an active politician. May I remind you that we have been waiting for your Grand Return to Nigeria for the past 6-7 Months just incase you forgot, I was told the plane that you were schedule to arrive with over shot the run way and Landed in a thousand dollars a night resort in Dubai.
  5. And mallam please make una no use big big English or una education level to AONDOAKAA us. We too don get English class for nija.
  6. You may also decide to use your most favourite defence that am paid by James Ibori and his associates to discredit you, let me be clear that i have no links what so ever with that association. I just think that people like you who are good at camouflaging should be exposed for who you truly are.

My final appeal to you El-rufai is to try and maintain whatever decency you still have and stop exhibiting such Characteristic that are attributable to a vulture, please have some kind of standard, no be by force to chop government money. To my readers if you did manage to make it through please understand that the word vulture was meant to show some of the habits of how easy El-rufai will align with any one if it is to his own interest, hmmm I guess chameleon may have been the right word. Nigerians Let us stop sycophancy and tell people like El-rufai to their face that we have not forgotten or forgiven them.      

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