Take it easy, Governor El-Rufa’i

The Kaduna State Governor, His Excellency, Nasir El-rufai is quoted to have said at a Kaduna APC stakeholders meeting last Saturday, 16th October, 2017 that should they insist on fighting him, they would die like the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua.

“I had fought with two Presidents” he said, “Umaru Yar’adua ended in his grave, while President Goodluck Jonathan ended in Otueke.”

What Governor El-rufa’i said, if it was a joke, let it remains like that, but if what he said was sincere and honest, I can say it was most unfortunate statement of the year.

I advise the Governor to withdraw such a statement with immediate effect. The Almighty Allah ‘hates’ those who consider themselves above others having special attributes different from them.

During the lifetime of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) there was a moon eclipse that coincided with the time of the death of one of the prophet’s sons. The companions attributed the emergence of the moon eclipse to the death of the prophet’s son. However, Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) politely told the companions that moon eclipse was a sign among the signs created by Allah. It had nothing to do with the death of his son (peace be upon him).

Allah is the possessor of the Power, He gives to whom He will, and takes away from whom He will! (Al-Imran, verse 26). Therefore, both the two former Presidents were contained herein the stated verse which have nothing to do with His Excellency’s hate rage as well as public condemnation of the Presidents.

Islamically, it has been said times without number that Muslims should speak well and good of the Dead or shut up! That is what the present government of Muhammadu Buhari termed as “Hate Speech”.

If the Senate report on the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) were to be released, they way it was done on the former SGF, David Lawal Babachir, and the story would have been different to the present Kaduna State Governor.

Those in Glass houses, they say, should not throw stones; otherwise, the houses would remain no more. Abbati D. Gumel, Kano