Supan:


I have gone through his article again. I sincerely didn't see anywhere he maligned the yorubas.
He just expounded his romance with yoruba elite in the media and...

The effect of it on the war bitter war El rufai is waging against the good people of SK. The media silence about this genocide is one of the many effects.




I agree with you wholesomely.

But his article was too refined to be interpreted as such though. He avoided the using yoruba instead he said southwest. Kperogi understands the subversive terrain of Nigerian politics very well.

DonDemu:
It's not Elrufai they hate. He's just a reflection of all they were raised to abhor. How can a Northerner be so smart, suave, and arguably the most competent public servant in the country? How dare he? How dare he, an aboki?

PlayerMeji:
Supan, Southwestern Nigeria is surely predominantly Yoruba and when one makes passive statements like

El-Rufai’s Special Adviser on Media and Communication who issues press statements on his behalf is some guy called Muyiwa Adekeye, although there are scores of competent media personalities from Kaduna who can do that job..

El-Rufai also has a slew of well-paid “social media influencers” as his “social media consultants” (which is a polite term for visceral and vicious social media attack dogs), all of whom are from the Southwest.

It is nurtured by his warrant less contempt for northern Nigerians and delimited by the profound inferiority complex he feels before the elites of Southwest Nigeria whose admiration he lives for.


When one makes such passive statements, reverse psychology is what you are playing at..

Subliminal messaging... You are prepping the subconscious of the average SK youth against the South West.

Well, whatever point he was trying to send across, he could have done that without the unnecessary categorization.

PlayerMeji:
You are prepping the subconscious of the average SK youth against the South West.

abduljabbar4:
While I may not be a big fan of Elrufai, I think these people need to shut their smelly mouths up for once. When the herdsmen strike in Benue, Plateau, and some southern states, nobody mentions the governors. They transfer the blame to Buhari but now that it is Kaduna, everybody wants to point fingers at the governor. It isthe height of hypocrisy and I'm glad that states are pulling out.

abduljabbar4:
While I may not be a big fan of Elrufai, I think these people need to shut their smelly mouths up for once. When the herdsmen strike in Benue, Plateau, and some southern states, nobody mentions the governors. They transfer the blame to Buhari but now that it is Kaduna, everybody wants to point fingers at the governor. It isthe height of hypocrisy and I'm glad that states are pulling out.

PlayerMeji:
Supan, I want you to see the dangers in creating certain stereotypes that would further divide our almost divided formation or further erode whatsoever sympathy we may have for each other.

Kindly look at this statement, Some south west media personnels are [i]aiding genocide or to a lesser extent being deceived to support it, [/i]under the guise of; I am paid to do my Job

I would like to state that Adesina or Adeleke being Yoruba doesn't represent the bulk of social media from the south west and in fact if you check opinions of most people in the SW, there's an overwhelming disdain for Elrufai and his cohorts.

Supan, I think what we should be saying at this time is how to launder Kperogi's statement to reduce its acidity on the SW Media and see how SW Social media can be more impactful in on the elrufai/SK crisis...

PlayerMeji:
Kindly look at this statement, Some south west media personnels are [i]aiding genocide or to a lesser extent being deceived to support it, [/i]under the guise of; I am paid to do my Job

Subduer:
hell-Rufai

GTkester:



They did it because no afonja held sway

GTkester:
More humiliations await him and his brood of afonja enablers.

PlayerMeji:
As much as you are not willing to understand that calling out a particular tribe for the atrocities committed by some few is degrading and tasteless coming from the person of Kperogi, I don't know what else to say.

PlayerMeji:
Now, let's look at these issues, these SMMs we are talking about are guys like you and I who would only be equipped with the information they would want to dissipate.

PlayerMeji:
Femi Adesina who is Buhari's hypeman. Let's cancel out Femi Adesina, he does the job for Buhari

PlayerMeji:
I must say this statement is very provoking.

PlayerMeji:
Are you saying there are no other people Rufai works with besides the SW SMMs?

PlayerMeji:
Also, the statement should put it into account that Sowore and his Sahara reporters is still very much SWestern

Dedetwo:
For the thread to be captioned El Rufia as the "Undisputed champion of the north" is a considerable insult not only to northern region of Nigeria but all champions of dog catchers. Bearing idiotic quote system introduced in the shithole called Nigeria, the stiffs such as El Eufia and Muhammadu Buhari would not have made a headline in a local newspaper.

Supan:


I think you are getting this wrong. Kperogi didn't malign the yoruba tribe. He only pointed out that his SMMs are from yoruba and El rufai is constantly wooing them and spending heavily on them so as not to turn the heat on him. He knows that the war he is waging on Nigerians will be easier won if he gets yorubas (either some or most) on his side first... and to some extent he is winning it.

Please you should understand that, it is El rufai that is dividing the yoruba people against themselves and not Kperogi. This devil knows that once he drops the crumbs for the willing tools, they can sell their conscience, fight their father, mother and generations yet unborn. That is evil.

Being so divided, we can't fight his evil agenda effectively.

My brother it is more deadly than you think. It means selling your conscience , silencing the voice of the oppressed and elevating the oppressor, supporting murders and genocide with your pen and on your platform. It is evil.

After the Rwanda genocide, one of the journalist who wasn't even a politician, after years of being on the run, willing gave himself up to be arrested and was imprisoned after he couldn't stand his conscience for all the evil remarks and comments he made during the genocide. Note this, he never killed, but he justified the killings on air as radio presenter.

Giving land for ranching better than death - Femi Adesina
Please analyse this Femi's statement in support of his master's RUGA and explain how he wouldn't be held responsible for the deaths that RUGA
incurred or when this adminstration is over?

You see everything shouldn't be about politics. Even Femi's state governor formed Amotekun to protect them seeing that Buhari has sinister agenda about RUGA.

Please, I sincerely appologize over that. I am not making this up. These are real happenings. If you have a friend in the media, let him initmate about the happenings.

There may be, but I don't know of any... Let's not miss the point that the job is too dirty for one to stick out his head for it.

I have lauded Sowore and his Sahara reporters too so much here...I even thought Kperogi is from yoruba too.

oyatz:
Farooq Kperogi is from the Bariba Tribe (a minority tribe) in Kwara State.
Obasanjo brought him into limelight by appointing him Presidential Speech writer.

Supan:


I think you are getting this wrong. Kperogi didn't malign the yoruba tribe. He only pointed out that his SMMs are from yoruba and El rufai is constantly wooing them and spending heavily on them so as not to turn the heat on him. He knows that the war he is waging on Nigerians will be easier won if he gets yorubas (either some or most) on his side first... and to some extent he is winning it.

Please you should understand that, it is El rufai that is dividing the yoruba people against themselves and not Kperogi. This devil knows that once he drops the crumbs for the willing tools, they can sell their conscience, fight their father, mother and generations yet unborn. That is evil.

Being so divided, we can't fight his evil agenda effectively.

My brother it is more deadly than you think. It means selling your conscience , silencing the voice of the oppressed and elevating the oppressor, supporting murders and genocide with your pen and on your platform. It is evil.

After the Rwanda genocide, one of the journalist who wasn't even a politician, after years of being on the run, willing gave himself up to be arrested and was imprisoned after he couldn't stand his conscience for all the evil remarks and comments he made during the genocide. Note this, he never killed, but he justified the killings on air as radio presenter.

Giving land for ranching better than death - Femi Adesina
Please analyse this Femi's statement in support of his master's RUGA and explain how he wouldn't be held responsible for the deaths that RUGA
incurred or when this adminstration is over?

You see everything shouldn't be about politics. Even Femi's state governor formed Amotekun to protect them seeing that Buhari has sinister agenda about RUGA.

Please, I sincerely appologize over that. I am not making this up. These are real happenings. If you have a friend in the media, let him initmate about the happenings.

There may be, but I don't know of any... Let's not miss the point that the job is too dirty for one to stick out his head for it.

I have lauded Sowore and his Sahara reporters too so much here...I even thought Kperogi is from yoruba too.

olisaEze:


I have been a fan of 'littlefinger' since his appointment as the DG of BPE, and in recent times have been serially disappointed by his divisive utterances and postulating since he became d Governor of his state. There is no hypocrisy to point to there, as non of the governors of those states u mentioned have claimed to have identified the killers of their people and paid them rather than bringing them to book.
Moreover, in a state as polarized by religious differences as kaduna state is, he could have sold the idea of a Muslim/muslim ticket with less arrogance as he did during his bid for 2nd term. You can’t eat ur cake and have it waiting in d fridge. As a personality in d public eye, u can’t be flippant when u speak on record and expect that a few years down d line people would have forgotten or forgiven you for them, when lives and livelihoods are involved.
BTW, the international community has still not forgotten his "they’ll be sent back in body bags" statement during the last elections. Abi will muric & co also threaten d world to silence?

GBOKASINCHA:
well its because the pepertrators of the killing in plateau and benue are not from benue or plateau but from the tribe of the president and elrufai....also their actions and statements supporting this killer herdsmen played a part too

Abouwaza:
Humiliated and e also pain am well well

nairalandankrah:
By FAROOQ KPEROGI
On Aug 22, 2020

The rescission of the invitation extended to Governor Nasir El-Rufai to speak at the annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) as a consequence of sustained social media pressures from people who are discomfited by his history of intolerance and verbal terrorism against his own people will inflict tremendous violence on the governor’s psychic wellbeing.


You see, there is nothing El-Rufai fhankers after more than the approval of the intellectual, media, and cultural elites of Nigeria’s Southwest. He lives for and basks in their plaudits and strives excessively hard to avoid inviting their disapprobation.

I had always known this, but I developed a heightened awareness of it when a fellow northern Nigerian Muslim called my attention to it in his disagreement with a social media update I wrote on August 18 about El-Rufai’s visceral anti-Southern Kaduna bigotry.


“Why does El-Rufai hate and despise the people of Southern Kaduna with such unnaturally infernal intensity?”

“He strains hard, often too hard, to be seen as ‘cosmopolitan’ when he relates with Southern Christians. Why can’t he even pretend to be prepared to get along with the people of Southern Kaduna? I don’t get it.”


His disdain for and murderous rage toward the people of Southern Kaduna is on apar with, or even less vicious than, his attitude toward Shiites with whom he shares the same religion.

He added that El-Rufai’s contempt for the people of Southern Kaduna may be magnified by his self-conscious nurturing of the [b]historical memory of the enslavement of the ancestors of the people of Southern Kaduna by his ancestors [/b]but that he is an equal-opportunity rhetorical pisser on everyday northern Nigerians.


El-Rufai cherishes the illusion that he is the undisputed champion of the North. He thinks he is the region’s nonpareil centre fielder and regards most northerners as beneath him.

The only people who humble him and whose approbation he perpetually seeks—obviously for transactional and opportunistic reasons—are the elites of Nigeria’s Southwest.

On the surface, this sounds like a cheap, conspiratorial whispering campaign until you step back and gaze at the facts.


Let’s start from the obvious.

El-Rufai’s Special Adviser on Media and Communication who issues press statements on his behalf is some guy called Muyiwa Adekeye, although there are scores of competent media personalities from Kaduna who can do that job.

Ordinarily, I would have applauded El-Rufai’s cosmopolitanism in appointing a “non-indigene” to be his spokesperson, but he didn’t appoint Adekeye as his spokesperson as a testament to his broadmindedness; he did so because the only constituency whose opinions of him he truly cares about are those of the elites of the Southwest, and only an Adekeye can effectively communicate his self-presentation to that constituency.


El-Rufai also has a slew of well-paid “social media influencers” as his “social media consultants” (which is a polite term for visceral and vicious social media attack dogs), all of whom are from the Southwest.

He, of course, also throws a few miserly crumbs to hordes of hungry northern Nigerian social media users to defend him, but he really doesn’t care what the North, or even Kaduna State, thinks of him.

Recall, too, that the annual Kaduna Book and Arts Festival, also informally known as KABAFEST or KADAFEST, which El-Rufai finances, is largely powered by the Lagos literary elite, even though, on paper, it is supposed to be a “celebration and promotion of creatives in the Northern region of Nigeria.”


When he ventured into newspaper publishing in 2004 by founding NEXT, El-Rufai hired members of the Lagos media elite.

The paper was also headquartered in Lagos, not Kaduna or Abuja. And he has a substantial financial stake in a prominent digital-native newspaper that is also run by members of the Lagos media elite.

I am not saying this to disparage or begrudge the media, intellectual, and cultural elites of Southwest Nigeria but to show that El-Rufai’s politics of ethnic and religious supremacy isn’t blind and unbridled.


It is carefully circumscribed. It is nurtured by his warrant less contempt for northern Nigerians and delimited by the profound inferiority complex he feels before the elites of Southwest Nigeria whose admiration he lives for.

That is precisely why his humiliation by the NBA will rankle him intensely and tear his self-esteem into shreds.

The greatest gift in this saga for northern Nigerian victims of El-Rufai’s bigotry and disdain is that they now know where to go when they want to get at him.

https://tribuneonlineng.com

abduljabbar4:


Politicians make divisive utterances all over Nigeria. I would have loved to mention fani Kayode but since he is not a governor, I will stick with Wike. Are you aware that he once called Rivers a christian state? So by that logic, if an armed group springs up in Rivers and starts killing muslims then we should point fingers at him.

Elrufai has always spoken like a lunatic. His stupidity is not restricted to religious affairs alone so I wonder why you people only want to stick only to the religious angle. He even recently insulted Kano people in a way.

Also, he isn't the first person to pay money to criminals. How were the Niger Delta militants appeased?


What you people need to understand is that even the bandits themselves are not religious. If they were religious, they wouldn't be attacking communities in Kebbi, Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina and Birnin Gwari LG here. They wouldn't be kidnappings and sometimes killing muslims in Abuja-Kaduna way. In fact, some of those that are killed in southern Kaduna are even muslims (like the father of 12 that was killed two weeks ago). Can you see why attributing the killings to his divisive statements hold no water?

If I want to stifle christianity in my state, I would create unfavorable policies, demolish churches, and maybe arrest some pastors. I wouldnt arm or support terrorists to kill Christians and consequently chase investors away. Especially if I have future political ambitions.

Elrufai, while being childish and irresponsible, is a victim of hatred from mostly southerners. Simple. For me, his blemish is his stone-head attitude (just like the Trump that majority of you love) but if we are talking about pure governance, he is okay. Insecurity is a national problem that will hopefully go away soon not just in Kaduna but in Benue, Plateau, Zamfara, Ogun and every other place for that matter



The international community is a big joke. What has it done about all the atrocities in Kashmir, Palestine, Yemen, Philippines, Myanmar and a zzillion other places? Please don't ever mention those ones again sir . I can quote a hundred quotes by politicians around the world that could potentially incure their "wrath". Even Buhari himself has said and done some things that should attract their attention

olisaEze:



I must admit, you have a good point. However, I don’t think it’s right to equate d militant youths of the ND to the rampaging horde of bloodthirsty bandits that are wrecking havoc & carnage in d North & Middlebelt. That’s a point most people who have never been down South ascribe to. The ND militants never attacked civilians but soldiers & policemen, who dey felt were complicit in aiding the govt and foreign nationals in ripping off their fellow Nigerians. They never raped women or killed infants. They didn’t even burn people’s homes but oil facilities and pipelines. The Amnesty was given to them by the late Yar’adua, they were not payed off. Moreover, they wouldn’t have gotten it if the President then was from the South.

In El’rufai’s case, he claimed to have tracked these killers to their countries and paid them off. That’s an abuse of public funds, abi u see d receipt to know exactly how much? That is what rankles Nigerians! Why use taxpayers moni to pay off foreigners? And in the knowledge that that hasn’t stopped the killings, why not induct those same people you payed off to defend your people?

As for the international community, I don’t think Slobodan Milosovich, Osama Bin Ladin & co are laughing now.