Bashir, one of the sons of former Kaduna governor Nasir El-Rufai, in a now-deleted tweet, threatened that there would be increased bloodshed in the Christian-majority Southern Kaduna if the people continued to attack the Fulani.
Mr. El-Rufai made this statement on Tuesday in response to an X user, @qykali, who criticized his father, accusing him of overseeing the ethnic cleansing of the people of Southern Kaduna during his eight-year tenure as governor of Kaduna State.
“Look at this Giraffe neck calling the president Pablo whereas your midget dad is a Fulani irredentist who engaged in industrial scale ethnic cleansing of people of southern Kaduna for the eight years he was Governor,” @qykali tweeted,
Triggered by @qykali’s tweet, Mr El-Rufai responded saying, “It is your stupid mother that is an elephant. And Southern Kaduna residents will keep seeing sheghe if they continue to attack indigenous Fulani herdsmen. Oloshi.”
“Shege,” an Hausa word, used by Mr El-Rufai suggested Southern Kaduna, a hotbed of violent killings by Fulani herdsmen and bandits in recent times, will not know peace, a threat many on X condemned, forcing Mr El-Rufai to delete the offensive tweet.
An X user, @EmmyPromise71, said Dear @BashirElRufai, are Southern Kaduna residents not dead enough? To even say that your father hasn’t come out to condemn this senseless comment of yours shows the kind of person he is. WHAT? Like really?”
“If Bashir El Rufai can confidently say this about Southern Kaduna with his full chest. Do you think your people down west or south will be safe from the Fulani herdsmen,” @timmonsion said.
A former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission and a critic of Mr. El-Rufai, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, tweeted:
“So, get this: #VileLittleMan, @elrufai, is now officially in the opposition, and his son is already threatening the people of #SouthernKaduna with #MassMurder. Guess what will happen when they get into the @NGRPresident. These people are sociopaths; #Genocidaires.”
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This tweet came after another controversial and disturbing post from Mr. El-Rufai, in which he once stated that the mysterious disappearance of Abubakar ‘Dadiyatta’ Idris, a critic of his father, was a deserved consequence for lying to the public.
Amid trending #WhereisDadiyatta on X in December 2019, Mr El-Rufai described Nigerians pushing the campaign on X as clowns, claiming that Dadiyatta was suffering for the consequences of lying.
“The same clowns who encouraged him when he was creating false stories and capitalising on lies that could endanger lives solely for political ends are the same individuals trending hashtags asking #WhereisDadiyata. Dangerous lies in the public space have consequences,” Mr El-Rufai said.
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