El-Rufai Mockery An Open Acceptance of Corruption

The assaults and mockery directed at Nasiru El-Rufai following the Senate’s non-clearance for his ministerial appointment due to (fantasy) security concerns show a people suffering and grinning while yet in bed with their criminals.

While Nasiru was humiliated due to his bluntness, others with EFCC cases, including possible theft, fraud, diversion of public funds, and court convictions, were given the red carpet treatment and encouraged to steal more against suffering Nigerians.

There are no records of El-Rufai being a scheming thief, despite your concerns about his radicalism and bluntness.

I have been silent about Nasiru and the Senate shenanigans because I do not wish the APC any good, and my principal (Atiku Abubakar) is currently in Court attempting to retrieve his mandate from the APC’s mandate bandits.

Yet, those who are applauding the Senate’s failure to clear Nasiru are celebrating a loss for Nigeria and a victory for corruption.

Nasiru was forthright enough about his plans in the power sector at his Senate interview because he had been informed beforehand that he would be the minister for the new Power and Energy Ministry. He had already fired his warning shots at a few crooks who are to blame for the country’s power outage and instead profit from the plight of all Nigerians. His intentions were plain enough, and it will only take a gruff and disruptive Nasiru El Rufai to crack down on those who operate on the electricity tollgate.

Both disco owners and others in the power value chain were concerned about El-Rufia’s return to replicate the disruption that created present-day Abuja, which we all celebrate; thus, they moved in quickly to halt the appointment that would have made the difference in the Bola Tinubu rotten list of ministerial nominees.

People call me blunt, but I call it honesty, according to Parr Winn. If stating it to my face is what makes you dislike me, then do it; I will not change anything about myself. Perhaps this is the side of Nasiru that I admire most, adding to the fact that he is not a regular thief in public office but just a radical.

We must choose carefully and set aside our emotions if we want Nigeria to grow. If Nigeria is being serious about development and goal-oriented, despite Nasiru’s shortcomings, it cannot throw him under the bus.

“I am a student of Nasiru El-Rufai school of (blunt & disruptive) thought.”

 

©Uloka Chibuike

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