For those who know Governor Ahmed El-Rufai, they’d tell you that the Kaduna State Governor is audacious, impudent, loquacious, cunning and let me add, smart. But it all depends on your concept and definition of “Smartness”.
Some say, El-Rufai is not smart, but an opportunist whose stock in trade is to use what he knows about people to curry favour from their enemies. He was believed to have used what he knew about his former principal and the one who brought him to political limelight, Alh. Atiku Abubakar to curry favour from Obasanjo. He warmed himself into the heart of Buhari by betraying his allies. Today, he is among those who silently call the shot in President Muhamadu Buhari-led APC Government.

However, his critics say his penchant for betraying people may have propelled him to the height he is currently relishing politically, but the same action, they believe may bring him to an abysmal political end since it is almost glaring that he cannot be trusted. Tomorrow is as uncertain as ever. The view held by man is that at the appropriate time, President Muhammadu Buhari will receive a bit of El-Rufai’s vituperations and betraying tendencies. After all, Governor El-Rufai has tongue-lashed Buhari in the past where he described him in the most inhuman way.

Back to the threat of gang-rape from Bello El-Rufai, one of the insolent sons of El-Rufai, Bello only did what his father is notorious about. Threats, reckless utterances and larger-than-life attitude. Perhaps he took it a bit farther than his father. This is because, overtime, Governor Nasir El-Rufai has been seen lambasting and hauling insults on those who he detests either on grounds of religion or other social differences.


Former President Goodluck Jonathan received the height of El-Rufai’s vituperations. El-Rufai described the former President in every detestable word and coined dehumanizing phrases to ridicule the former President. He once described Jonathan as a leader who took delight in mortgaging the future of newer generation by incessant borrowing. Today, it is on record that Jonathan borrowed nothing when compared with President Buhari’s attachment for foreign loans to solve the least national problem. Today, El-Rufai has gone numb in calling a spade by its name. Buhari is his kinsman who shares the same religion and region with him. Governor El-Rufai is that religious and sectional.

Like father like son, Africans will say, Bello El-Rufai displayed the height of irresponsibility when he left his country’s failing leadership to haul insults on a President of a country with the largest economy and better social ratings whose rating and whose rating among his citizens has never been and will never be as woeful Nigeria leaders from the Federal to the Local levels. El-Rufai’s grown children have overtime displayed attitudes that make one easily conclude that they are morally moribund.

Governor El-Rufai’s cravings for insults, intolerance and threats rub off on his children. His grown kids are known to be sadistic brats who believe that money and the political status of their father can shield them from everything. To this end, they have, like their father become untamed in their utterances, and restive in their quest to hurt others. In fact, they believe brutality and threat are integral part of wielding power. They make threat at will.

They do not bother about the consequences. They believe, or they have been nurtured to believe that power is all you need to crush your enemies and those who do not see things through your eyes. Like their father, the vice of brutality, religiosity, and sectionalism rage in them. It could be seen from the way they talk, threaten and attack those who hold dissenting views. They lack the virtue of tolerance. They believe that things must always be the way they want it and anything outside the way they want it must be resisted, even if means using any devious means to achieve same.

The recent rape-threat and tribal vituperations from El-Rufai’s son is a tip of the iceberg. It is the least he has done. He did not threaten what he could not do or what he has not done before. He threatened from the point of knowledge and expertise. They are children raised with that level of permissiveness where they function in a way different from what they profess.

This is not the first time the young El-Rufai is furiously attacking those with dissenting voices, neither is it the first time he is showing vice of violence. The El-Rufai’s are notorious of finding fault in others, but they resist those who tend to find and expose their own faults. The El-Rufais’ emotional intelligence equals nothing. They are simply heck of temperamental critics who lousily lambast others but would go extra miles to ensure that those who criticize them are severely dealt with. This seems a genetic anomaly within the El-Rufai’s.

https://www.leadingreporters.com/opinion/governor-nasir-el-rufai-and-some-of-his-children-share-genetic-notoriety-of-insolence-and-bigotry-part-1/