A campaign that started off twitter to remove Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna State Governor, from the list of speakers in the upcoming Annual General Conference of the NBA, has moved to major petition on Change.org.
About 500 people have signed this petition.
This came in the wake of the recent happenings in Kaduna, the killings in Southern Kaduna as well as his human rights record. Some lawyers called on NBA to remove el-Rufai from the list of speakers as he has failed in his leadership duties.
Usani Odum started this petition which has garnered more than 500 signatures, barely hours after it was initiated.
Summary of the petition read, “The senseless killings in southern Kaduna must stop. The political correctness of Governor El-Rufai on national TV is diversionary. It is a reversal to have him speak to lawyers on security when Governor (Babagana) Zulum of Borno a better person can do so.
“We may not be able to do anything to stop the killings, but we can stop the governor from speaking at the NBA-AGC to show our disapproval of the manner he has handled the situation!!”
Several lawyers have publicly announced that they will not be attending the NBA conference if the leadership of the bar insists on el-Rufai. This is pending his removal.
In a letter, titled, ‘Request to Withdraw the Offer of Platform at the 2020 Annual General Conference of the NBA to Mallam Nasir el-Rufai’, and addressed to the Chairman, Technical Committee on Conference Planning, NBA, Prof Koyinsola Ajayi, some lawyers said the governor must not be allowed to speak at the conference.
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The letter, which was signed by Silas Onu and Auta Nyada, listed 10 allegations against el-Rufai and his son, Bello, who is a Special Adviser to Kaduna Central lawmaker, Senator Uba Sani.
The lawyers recalled that el-Rufai had during the run-up to the 2019 general elections threatened that any foreigner who interfered in the election would leave Nigeria in “body bags”.
They also pointed out that the governor ranks very low on several human rights group charts owing to his intolerance for the opposition.
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