Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has apologised for the 'Jesus joke' he retweeted on Twitter.
Ogunyemi Bukola, with the handle @zebbook, had tweeted: "If Jesus criticized Jonathan’s govt, Maku/Abati/Okupe will say he slept with Mary Magdalene". After this, El-Rufai copied the tweet and added the letters "LWKMD" which means "Laugh Wan Kill Me Die" [Laughter will kill me].
The infamous tweet
Professor Pat Utomi, a respected voice, immediately went on Facebook to show his displeasure.
I'm at a loss for words! We should draw the line somewhere? The most Sacred of names must never be desecrated an the altar of politics. PU," he wrote.
El-Rufai has now decided to publish a full statement on his Facebook page, apologising for the joke.
The full statement reads:
"Hello Friends. I have been travelling and try to catch some sleep in between the last 24 hours and missed all the furore arising from my retweet of Ogunyemi Bukola’s (@zeebook) joke Maku eat al and Jesus. I must say I am taken aback by the extent of desperate misrepresentation of what was an innocuous attempt to show the godlessness of the Jonathanians to denigrate anyone that dares to ask them to be accountable.
"To those who were genuinely offended by the retweet, I apologize. I did not meant to offend anyone, neither did the @zeebook I know and featured as one of the Young Voices in my Friday Column. Jesus or Isa Alaihis Salaam is a respected prophet of Islam. Every Muslim accepts this in addition to his miraculous virgin birth. It is therefore absurd for any Muslim believer to disrespect Jesus Christ.
"I hope those in this class will see my point of view and accept my apologies for any offense or disappointment caused. And I advise everyone… to read @zeebook’s timeline and mine to read EXACTLY what was tweeted rather than the second-hand reports of certain people who ALWAYS twist whatever I write or not write to achieve their morally-repugnant objectives.
"To those in that class of liar – the political contractors who tried to attribute the entire statement to me to destroy perceived political capital, I say keep on doing that till the day your cups will be full. Everything these days is reduced to posturing for 2015,but those doing it do not even know which one of us will be alive to witness the events of that time. I leave all those to God and their conscience.
"To the Warriors of God, who misinterpret the Scriptures (both Bilble and Qur’an) and pretend to be capable of fighting His battles, please learn from history. The multiple Crusades and Jihads are yet to convert the entire human race into one religion. If God wished us all to be of one religion, He would have made us so. So please leave God’s work to Him, and just be good to other humans.
"I thank all my friends who stood up for me in this saga. They know me better than what the desperate Jonathanians want to paint as El-Rufai. And those that wish to know me a little better should please read my forthcoming book. Thanks and God Bless."
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We dnt fight for our Jesus like other people dat can fight for catoon.......... Prophet. Our Jesus is d prince of peace.
ReplyDeleteIdiot!, express yourself fully.
DeleteTruth be told,this wouldn't have gone down well should the joke have been on Muslims.I pray that we all truly respect ourselves&most importantly God.@mallam-you should have known better,its not just about the apology,you shouldn't do anything of its kind if u truly fear God.Zurielle's opinion
DeleteWhat insollence!! ♓ε̲̣̣̣̥ would have tweeted "if Mohamed criticize Jonathan's govt, Maku et al will accuse him of Longer throat that is why pork killed him" nonsense!!what right does ♓ε̲̣̣̣̥ have Ï„̲̅☺ crack joke about Christianity? ♓ε̲̣̣̣̥ would tried using Moha α̲̅πϑ see if ♓ε̲̣̣̣̥ will not spend Ï„̣̣Ñ’Ñ‘ nite in his grave. Spineless ♓ε̲̣̣̣̥ goat!
ReplyDeleteWhat would have happened if this was a reverse case. Am sure many innocent christian life would uav been slain
ReplyDeleteThe guy is trying to cause a religeos trouble and hold the president responsible.
ReplyDeleteIf it were Mohammed that someone joked about, the whole country would be on fire by now. Hypocrites
ReplyDeleteIf anyone tries that on prophet Mohammed's name, heven would have left loosed. Eminent people like El-rufai should know better, you are a disappointment to religious world. U have only one route to escape God's anger, repentance
ReplyDeleteYou are a foolish man. This is just an example of what you will do with Christians if you become the President of this country. However, I admire the way you apologize for your foolishness. I hope the apology was not made out of political purposes.
ReplyDeletemark my words mr el rufil or what ever u are called.."U shall die by Laughter". Let the anger of our our God consume u and ur dity life. 2013 is ur last!
ReplyDeleteStupid man El Rufai I command U to die by fire b4 2015 Jesus is not Ur mate
ReplyDeleteNo one dare tweet or retweet jokes like this about Sultan of sokoto not to talk of prophet Muhammad. Thus only shows El Rufai's level of ignorance and stupidity. For a politician of his calibre to openly make such joke shows that he lacks the qualities to be a leader in a multi-religious community. This is d beginning of your downfall regardless of your apology.
ReplyDeleteAs a christian and also a Catholic, we should forgive him and accept his apology. In a developed country, he would definitely loose ground on such actions especially after the purported video of Mohammed having...with an h... El Rufai should know there are some things that come back to haunt one even after apology. He should find out from IBB on his evil genius statement and also from David Mark on his mobile phones not meant for poor statement. Bloody and myopic wealthy nigerians from public funds!- PH dude
ReplyDeleteloool oboi see firing!!
ReplyDeleteQuite unfortunate.
ReplyDeleteAfter all said and done Rufai, your apology should be geared towards God and not mortals. Our God is just and right ever ready to forgive repentant hearts -that is what JESUS and Christianity stands for -to set the records straight
ReplyDeleteThat's to show the big difference between the Right thinking people and the Zombies of a religion who knows only how to kill kill kill.. If it had been d other way round,( a Christain insulting mohammed)Ha!!, plenty people go don die again for Kano, kaduna and Jos. I wonder if they ever learn..
ReplyDeleterufai ur apology was born out of ur political motives,bt the world knows u nw as religious fanatics
ReplyDeleteHaving gone through all your comments, I discovered you are all cowards, you all claim to be followers of Christ (Issa), but are cowards, first by identifying yourselves as "anonymous", secondly by always pretending to stand for "peace" even when slapped. You all have refused or rather are blinded to react to the originator of the tweet, but chose to attack the retweeter. Make wuna go sleep!!
ReplyDeleteIf it were to be Muhammed, i wonder what would have happened to Easterners living in Northern Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteI believe on should respect others views, opinions, feelings, views etc.
El_rufai, you are a very big disappointment and a shame to this country.
It shows that those struggling to rule us are idle minds looking for amusement even if the amusement comes at a monumentally costly or deadly level. What a shame?
ReplyDeleteAny other sin can be forgiving but sinning with the holy spirit can never be forgiving E-rufai u are laying course on yourself, God will surely fight for himself.
ReplyDeleteU have left d cracker of the joke and are now murdering the laugher. Na wa for una o. Besides the joke was meant to show the extent these presidential aides would go to protect their master. How many of you wrote to Dan Brown for his opinions in the Da Vinci's code. Anyway na una opinion esp the proponents of die by or b4 2015. If u haven't sinned cast the first stone. intolerant and myopic, I must say.
ReplyDeleteGod punish u. The fact that they were unable to write to Dan Brown does not meant they can't do it in their homeland. Do know who and who wrote or criticized Dan Brown? Wonder who is myopic btw u and them.
DeleteThe bible is the origin of knowledge and enlightenment,bible reading Christians should worry less in cases as this,that is what informed the differences between the Christians and the Muslims.
ReplyDeleteJesus,even on the cross of calvary forgave the execussioners,may God forgive El-Rufai for doesnt know what his saying
ReplyDeleteEL-RUFAI should repent and accept JESUS CHRIST as his personal LORD AND SAVIOUR AND ASK GOD FOR FORGIVENESS.
ReplyDeleteOur God is a God of mercy and alway ready to forgive. I want U to kown that Christianity is al about LOVE and when u LOVE u will forgive.but be carefUl and wise in ur loving os that no man decieves u or take u for a fool.
ReplyDeletenigerians always put relgion for head, but no faith for their heart hence this kind of insecurity and poverty.
ReplyDeleteIf at your age El rufai you can't edit your thought properly before you utter it out,then i wud suggest you shud cosult ur doctor for mental fittness.what u did is called foolishness,only a fool will say things like this.
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