Having read Malam Nasir Elrufai’s interview in the Saturday sun of September 14, 2013,
I am compelled to present facts to set the
records straight in order that the general
public is not misled by the machinations
of a man who is in dire need of prayers
and perhaps psychological assistance.
Nasir Elrufai said “Nothing can make
Jonathan succeed. He is grossly
incompetent, he doesn’t listen, he doesn’t
even understand the issues. I am sorry! I
know the man more than those that are
shouting with Jonathan because when he
was my friend, none of them even knew
him. I knew Jonathan as a deputy governor in 2002. That was when I first met him and we have been relating. So, all these new found Jonathan lovers should just shut up. I know him and I know what he can do and what he cannot do. So, please, they should just leave me alone. Those that want jobs can go and take jobs. I don’t want”.
Now, let me start by saying that Nasir
Elrufai lied when he said this and there is
documentary evidence to prove this. For
instance, contrary to what he said in this
interview, Nasir Elrufai at a meeting with
Ambassador John Campbell in April of 2007 said that the then Vice Presidential
nominee of the People’s Democratic Party,
PDP, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan “is
clean and honest”. Going further, Elrufai
told the ambassador that “Governor
Jonathan was the only candidate that met
Obasanjo’s guidelines- honesty and Ijaw”.
Unknown to Elrufai, the ambassador kept a
record of their conversation which is now a public record in America.
Beyond that, Nasir Elrufai, who had gone
into voluntary exile under the presidency
of Malam Umaru Musa Yar’adua after he
was accused of corruption and abuse of
office while he was minister of the Federal
Capital Territory, FCT, felt safe enough to
return to Nigeria as soon as President
Jonathan ascended to power.
When Elrufai returned to Nigeria, in 2010,
he visited the President at Aso Rock
Presidential Villa on May 11, 2010, and was
the first major political figure to call on
President Jonathan to contest for the 2011
presidential election. Elrufai also praised
President Jonathan openly.
The Holy Bible says in James 1:8 “A
double minded man is unstable in all his
ways”. I think this biblical verse best
describes Nasir Elrufai. Elrufai in this his
latest interview showers encomiums on
Major General Muhammadu Buhari saying
“I think that where Nigeria is today, only
someone like Buhari, with the experience
of having run the country before, and
having run it along certain principles of
discipline, integrity and accountability, that Nigeria needs”.
However, this is what the same Elrufai had
to say about Buhari on October 6 2010 ”
Mallam El-Rufai wishes to remind General
Buhari that he has remained perpetually
unelectable because his record as military
head of state, and afterwards, is a warning
that many Nigerians have wisely heeded.
His insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and
his parochial focus are already well-known.
In 1984, Buhari allowed 53 suitcases
belonging to his ADC’s father to enter
Nigeria unchecked at a time the country
was exchanging old currency for new.
Against all canons of legal decency, he
used retroactive laws to execute three
young men for drug-peddling after they
were convicted by a military tribunal and
not regular courts of law. Buhari was so
high handed that he gave himself and his
officials immunity even from truthful
reporting. That obnoxious Decree 4,
against which truth was no defence, was
used to jail journalists and attempt to cow
the media as a whole. That tyrannical
legislation shows the essence of his
intolerance. These are facts of recent
history. The story of counter-trade and
import licensing, the cornerstone of
Buhari’s stone-age economic strategy and
those whose interests it served, is a tale
for another day.”
Now, how does one man go from warning
the nation about Buhari as a man unfit to
govern Nigeria and one who is perpetually
unelectable because of his parochial
nature to saying that he is the man that
can best lead this nation?
Is it not obvious to all that there is more
than one personality in possession of the
mind and soul of this man called Nasir
Elrufai? Can any sane person trust the
words of a man who is so unstable?
Today, Elrufai, perhaps banking on what he thinks is the short memory of
Nigerians is attempting to rewrite history.
But it is such a difficult task to paint over
the truth with a lie.
Nasir Elrufai wanted something from the
President which was why he visited him at
the Presidential Villa to heap unsolicited
praise on the president in 2010. When he
did not get what he wanted, he became
bitter and since the days of yore when the
fox that could not get the grapes tagged
them ‘sour grapes’ to mask its frustration,
it has always been the habit of persons
who cannot compete on the basis of ideas
to give a dog a bad name in order to hang
it. Thus, Elrufai, having run out of ideas,
has tagged this administration as
‘incompetent’. But as they say in law, Res
Ipsa Loquitor, (thefacts speaks for
themselves).
In just this past month alone, we have
seen a fulfilment of two major Jonathanian
promises. The Akanu Ibiam Airport is now
officially an International Airport as its
facilities have been upgraded to meet ICAO standards and it received its first
international commercial flight. Also, the
rail services have been revived from Apapa
Port to the North.
In these two instances, the Jonathan administration has put money back in the wallets of Nigerian citizens. Every time someone flies internationally from the Akanu Ibiam Airport, he saves sixty thousand Naira that would have been spent paying for connecting flights to Lagos, Port Harcourt or Abuja. And every time you receive a container by rail in Northern Nigeria from Apapa Port, you would have saved perhaps fifty thousand Naira that would have been spent on additional cost from hauling your
container by road.
And this is just for last month. Time would
not permit me to highlight the 153 Almajiri
schools built in every state of the North to
serve our children who are engaged in the
almajirinciform of Qu’ranic education (a
total of 400 are to be delivered), or the
ongoing reconstruction (not repair) of the
Lagos-Ibadan road for which 167 billion
has already been reserved to prevent the
project being an abandoned project, or the
dredging of the River Niger up to Baro in
Niger state to make that port accessible to
ships, or the establishment of the Green
Belt Zone along Nigeria’s Northern borders to end desertification, or the signing of the HYPADEC bill into law to enable the people of the Hydro Electric producing areas benefit from their God given resources, or the current massive multi billion Naira efforts to save the Lake Chad from drying up. This is besides the fact that those states which did not have a federal university prior to President Jonathan’s ascendancy now have at least one university, thanks to this administration’s establishment of nine new universities.
I have identified these projects on purpose
because they were meant to be priority
projects of yore but were however left
unattended until one man called Jonathan
Goodluck entered the scene.
Why has it taken an “incompetent”
President Jonathan to grow Nigeria’s
economy at over 6% per annum since he
ascended to the presidency? Why has it
taken an “incompetent” administration to
get Nigeria to be promoted from a “Low
Income Nation” to a “Middle Income
Nation” by the World Bank? Again, it took
an incompetent administration to ensure
Nigeria won its first African Cup of Nations
in 19 years. If previous administrations had been this ‘incompetent’, then Nigeria
would have long since overtaken South
Africa as Africa’s largest economy, but we
did not achieve this feat until an
‘incompetent’ Jonathan was brought to
office by the votes of over 22 million
Nigerians.
In this latest interview, Elrufai boasts that
he is a “self-made man”. Even this
statement is a sad reflection of the
irreligious state of Nasir Elrufai’s mind.
People who say they are “self made”
should read The Book of Daniel and see
what God did to Nebuchadnezzar after he
made such a boast. Nobody is self made.
Does it make mathematical sense to
believe that the God who has numbered the hairs on your head has no input into the opportunities that came your way?
In a Wikileaks document, an identified
American diplomat revealed that Elrufai
was “personally known to him to be
homeless” before he got into government.
Now Elrufai has never sued the diplomat
for libel or slander. But today, this man
who was known by a U.S. diplomat to be
homeless now boasts that ” I was already a self-made man when I came into
government”. Since when did
homelessness amount to being “self-
made”?
And Elrufai further showed his disconnect
with the realities around him when he
boasted in his interview that “there is no
one who sat at the table with us when we
were making these decisions and
advancing these arguments that have
come out to say that what I wrote there
[his book, The Accidental Public Servant] is not true”. This statement is so easy to
demolish. As at the last count, the
following persons have come out very
publicly on the front and back pages of
newspapers to say that what Elrufai wrote
is a lie; former Vice President, Atiku
Abubakar, former Economics and Financial
Crimes Commission Chairman, Nuhu
Ribadu, former Central Bank Governor,
Chukwuma Soludo, former Imo State
Governor, Ikedi Ohakim amongst others. In
fact, Nuhu Ribadu was reported in the
Punch of February the 19th 2013 to have
said that “There is a huge integrity
deficiency” in Elrufai’s book!
Does Elrufai have such a record for truth
that we can say that his word outweighs
the words of these gentlemen?
In any case, let me conclude by saying
that Malam Nasir Elrufai has problems that
may not be known to the generality of
Nigerians and certainly by his current bed
fellows in the All Progressive Congress. In
his book, The Accidental Public Servant,
Elrufai had terrible and nasty things to say
about those whose backs he had already
climbed on and reserved encomiums for
those whose backs he needs to climb on.
That alone speaks volumes of his
character and should alert his current
associates to the proverb that a slave who
sees his fellow buried in shallow grave
should know that he would receive the
same treatment when his time comes.
Reno Omokri is Special Assistant (New
Media) to the President.
source: http://dailypost.com.ng/2013/09/15/reno-omokri-president-jonathans-competency-and-elrufais-sour-grapes/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=reno-omokri-president-jonathans-competency-and-elrufais-sour-grapes

reno my man pls help me to continuously educate this hate-induced critics e.g
elrufai
buhari
lie Mohammad
tinubu
rotimi fashakin
shehu sani
APC gang of thugs and e-warriors
and never forget to remind them that Jonathan remains the c-in-c till 2019

First, eh? Err...reno I like the sound of your name. sounds better than hell fire....oops, sorry el Rufai.

About the article, I've made up my mind to siddon look about all things Nigeria.

God dey.

Finally, this ain't end time stuffs.
Ain't over till its over.

I like this Reno guy no be small. God will continue to nourish your wisdom

juventino: I like this Reno guy no be small. God will continue to nourish your wisdom

Amen and Amen. It is said in ma place dat someone who is drowning, if he sees poo, he'll grab it. Dat is exactly happening to El Rufai and his followers.
Long Live GEJ
Long Live Naija
Long Live all peeps who sees gud n appluad it

I love this part...

awodman:
In a Wikileaks document, an identified
American diplomat revealed that Elrufai
was “personally known to him to be
homeless” before he got into government.
Now Elrufai has never sued the diplomat
for libel or slander. But today, this man
who was known by a U.S. diplomat to be
homeless now boasts that ” I was already a self-made
man when I came into
government”. Since when did
homelessness amount to being “self-
made”?

Good and well written article by Reno Omokri. But beyond the big big English.

Vituperations from an unfortunate fellow trying to save his drowning pay master! and justify His pay.

Attacking the messengers and leaving the messages is the hallmark of GEJ'S attack dogs. Their reaction on serious allegations on their pay master often remind me of debate competition in our secondary school days.
Among the points EL-RUFAI raised are:
* Jonathan is dividing the country along religious line.
* Aritsejafor does not ever see anything wrong in GEJ'S most coward decisions.
* Jonathan and his teams are corruption impersonified.
* Jonathan is promoting impunity at all levels.
* Jonathan is highly incompetent.
* Buhari is corruption free than Jonathan.
* Buhari got over 12 millions unrigged votes in 2011 presidential elections.
And many more.
Which of these points has this guy counters with a valid argument? Honestly some people are daft!