El' Rufai And His Intellectual Boko Haramsm

Going by the dexterity and zest with which Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai awkwardly throws his weight against the government and, most times, the personality of President Goodluck Jonathan, one cannot refuse, but agree that there is a cult of ignorance in Nigeria, especially since this Boko Haram madness deepened in Jonathan government.

People like the voluble El-Rufai have not refused to show their brand of Boko Haram, which they in-a-roundabout-way tailored on the part of intellectual discourse. But regrettably, they always misfire and show their mountainous hatred for not only the government which Jonathan was duly elected to head, but the person of Jonathan.

In not-too-far account, it could be presumed that El-Rufai blatantly presupposed that the Jonathan government, Ndigbo and the once Niger Delta insurgents were bent on measures to extirpate northerners. Being loquacious and always looking for cheap publicity since his political relevance expired, El-Rufai could be connected with the statement of 'no Boko Haram', but that the government was supposedly using the Nigerian Forces to destroy the activities and the people of Northern Nigeria, (because the man in the helm-of-affairs of the country is from the South).

In El-Rufai's known irritating approach to making comments before he reasons, he was also credited with the statement that it was Ndigbo that were in the art of planting the bombs 'here and there'. He vehemently extricated Boko Haram from being in existence.

But with the current pleas by the so-called northern leaders to bargain with the group in seeing to the release of the Chibok students they said were abducted, has further exposed the many lies and ethnic sentiment of El-Rufai of using his intellect in the most indecorum form. Whether the likes of El-Rufai want to make money from the government in their bid that government should pay ransom in swap for the release of the girls or make exchange with the alleged detained Boko Haram members in the prison, does not meet the eyes.

Today, Nigerians have known better that all that El-Rufai has been expending his energy for inguise of exhibiting his intellect is just claptrap of ethnic and religious jingoism. El-Rufai's rather anti-intellectualism shames! The sad side of it is that his comments continue to mislead the young-at-heart in the north who erroneously take him as one of their big brothers, oblivious that his comments strains and are nurtured by false notion.

Somebody would say that El-Rufai means: 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' El-Rufai is not a personality for change and not the one whose comments are geared towards change, except the change of indirectly bolstering one ethnic divide against another, which is getting completely out of hand and he had been invited severally by security apparati to substantiate his many 'throwing fire on the mountain' stances.

He is good at calling dissenters thugs, please, go ask Asari Dokubo. You may say that Nigeria is unfortunate with this El-Rufai with his many unedited comments that could have opened the doors of gulag for him many times if the country were to eschew religious and bigmanism and tribal sentiments in its cause of executing justice as enshrined in the western-like constitution it operates.

El-Rufai oozes out outdated bitterness known of the northerners of the old, although many of them from the north still believe the dummy they were sold to by the ancient British colonial masters and mistresses that they were 'born to rule Nigeria' at all cost. It behooves any sensible persons to imagine what could have been the fate of the Southerners in the hands of the El-Rufais of this country if the oil in the South-East and South-South were to be in the North. There, perhaps, could not have been 'one Nigeria' for a long time. Courtesy of the El-Rufais!

His comments are above the All Progressives Congress, APC, politicking in all ramifications. El-Rufai's new found occupation after being a failed minister is about Jonathan, Ndigbo, South-South, South-East and calling any supportive voice to Jonathan from the South thug. El-Rufai is not thinking and talking about how to bring to life the natural resources in the country which sources recently said that the country had over 20 untapped natural resources across the country and these are also deposited in the north where the El-Rufai comes from.

The revenue that El-Rufai was supposed to be talking about that should come from the north is his pseudo-intellectualism to abuse the collective sensibilities of this government and Nigerians who are not from the north or who are in totality opposed to the madness called Boko Haram, which has killed and destroyed many lives and the property of Southerners in the north.

Let El-Rufai not see other people as lazy as he may be. He should know that no Igbo person, South-South or South-East peoples care much about the resources of this country the way northerners want to die for them in seeing that they control the power and the resources of the country.

In 'Waiting for Godot' Samuel Beckett warns the likes of El-Rufai: 'All I know is that the hours are long... and constrain us to beguile them with proceedings which ... may at first sight seem reasonable, until they become a habit.'

Odimegwu Onwumere, a Poet/Writer, writes from Rivers State.

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