Charity should indeed begin at home. He shouldn’t just talk the talk; he should also walk the talk as action speaks louder than words goes the age-long aphorism.
Mallam Nasir el-Rufai came into limelight in 1999 when democracy returned back to the country after a 16-year hiatus of military misrule.
Some of his die-hard supporters pushed his name forward as a possible successor to Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in 2007 after the alleged failure of the latter’s third term bid. For some reasons best known to Baba Iyabo as the former President is fondly called, he settled for the late Umaru Musa Yar’adua, who was then governing Katsina State.
Kaduna – the melting pot for many Northerners, has been under siege by Fulani herdsmen and bandits. Southern Kaduna where the majority of Christians reside has been under severe attack since 2011. Many indigenes of there have been mindlessly slaughtered and hundreds of thousands displaced from their ancestral homes.
The technical committee for conference planning of the Nigerian Bar Association decided to invite el-Rufai as a keynote speaker for their forthcoming conference scheduled from 26 -29 August 2020. While the NBA may have their shortcomings especially with regards to their last elections which saw one of the presidential contestants, Dele Adesina cry foul, I totally agree with them for rescinding their earlier invitation to the diminutive Kaduna state governor.
The apology to el-Rufai by the outgoing NBA President, Paul Usoro , is rather unfortunate as it casts a gargantuan slur on the personality of the Bar’s numero uno helmsman. Why couldn’t Usoro stand by the decision of the NBA? What was the sense in eating his words and going back to his vomit? It’s really tragic for a learned man to behave like a school lad who has been reprimanded by his teacher for misconduct.
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