Condemnations have continued to trail the tweet and retweet by a former minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, on Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene.
In separate interviews with newsmen, the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) and Methodist Church advised that el-Rufai should be rebuked seriously.
The religious leaders warned that the remark could set the country on fire.
Despite his earlier apology, el-Rufai had retweeted: To those who see clearly, whose minds are not clouded by sheer religiosity, there is nothing insulting about the tweet.”
The General Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Dr. Musa Asake, also said the former minister should be brought “to justice on account of his incitement and insult against the Christian faith.”
“With this retweet, CAN believes that El-Rufai is set on a war path with the millions of Christians in Nigeria. We must state that unlike others, Christians do not shed blood, take life, kill or maim others at the slightest provocation,” he said.
Similarly, the Prelate of the Anglican Church, Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, urged leaders of Islamic organisations in the country including the Sultan of Sokoto, to “call el-Rufai to order before he oversteps his bounds.”
Okoh said the Muslim community must prevail on el-Rufai to desist from making derogatory remarks about Christianity to avoid retaliatory responses from Christians.
He said if the Muslim community didn’t want anything derogatory to be said about them, then their members should not make such comments about other people’s faith.
Also, the Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Dr. Sunday Makinde, said el-Rufai needed prayers. “Father, forgive him for he knows not what he is doing,” he said.
He added that Christians would not judge el-Rufai for insulting their sensibilities.
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this is becoming political, turning christians against Elrufai ahead of 2015
ReplyDeleteWE ARE FANATICS. OUR GOD FIGHTS FOR HIMSELF. IGNORE NASIRU PLEASE. SHALOM.
ReplyDeleteWE ARE NOT FANATICS LIKE THEM. THEY FIGHT FOR THEIR god, BUT OUR GOD FIGHTS FOR US AND HIMSELF. PLEASE IGNORE NASIRU AND CONSIGN HIM TO THE TRASH CAN. PEACE.
ReplyDeleteEl Rufai is a bigot who has gone out of his senses. That's a man who thinks he can rule a nation. Thank God he trampled on the sensibility of christians because he knows he will be given "the other ear" Let him dare try his big watery mouth on Islam and see what will happen to him.
ReplyDeleteI am aware that beyond saying this was retweet, el-Rufai has publicly apologized in writing. This is an acceptance of wrong decision on his side. Pls, let us move forward and bury this hatchet once and for all.
ReplyDeleteEl- Rufai on his part must in future, carefully learn to avoid such controversies which is highly un called for.
El-rufai is an animal and frustrated fool that althought 2 be in the zoo.
ReplyDeletewhere are the so called learned in nigeria,pls,dis is an ordinary figure of speech,if need be y nt attack the ones dt coined the figure of speech,and stop making a hill out of amole
ReplyDeleteTwo wrongs do not make a right. Calling el-Rufai names for an action he has apologized does not make any reasonable meaning either. By the way I am yet to come across any condemnations of the original author of the tweet, who I consider the real villain.
ReplyDeleteWe wil not react or fight El Rufai 4 his intension but, our GOD will answer him at d right time. Lets hold on peace.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, El Rufai has shown that he is a religious bigot. His utterance has scored him low in his political ambition. In future it will surely work against him. Rainfall can erase a footprint but utterance cannot be erased by anything.
ReplyDeleteIf truly as u claimed that u don't fight 4 ur god, why all these niose and counter noise. Let ur god fight 4 himself now. by u complaining u are being hypocritical.
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