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By Dropping El-Rufai, NBA Has Declared War On The Other Side In Southern Kaduna Crisis – MURIC

Kennedy IgweBy Kennedy IgweAugust 21, 2020Updated:August 21, 2020No Comments3 Mins Read
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The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has condemned in strong terms the decision by the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) to withdraw the invitation earlier sent to Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El- Rufai to speak at its Virtual Annual General Conference scheduled for Wednesday, August 26.

Following a petition against Governor El-Rufai by some lawyers under the aegis of Open Bar Initiative, the NBA had Thursday withdrew its invitation to allow the governor participate in the event.

The lawyers had claimed El-Rufai represents the very anti-thesis of what we profess to defend.

But Ishaq Akintola, MURIC director, in his reaction on Friday, described the rejection of the Kaduna Governor as a high level prejudice, adding that it has further exposes the association’s impatience, intolerance and self-concept.

“NBA yesterday dropped Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State from the list of speakers at its Virtual AGC which is billed to start on 26th August, 2020. It is high level prejudice. NBA as a group of learned literati should know better. It is parochial, myopic and jejune,” said Ishaq in the statement.

“The fact that NBA took the ill-advised step on account of a petition written by a group, Open Bar Initiative, whose main fear is expressed as ‘One can be sure that he will also use the given platform to advance his conflated narrative, designed to deceive and confuse the nation on the real causes of the killings’ exposes NBA’s impatience, intolerance and self-conceit.”

The MURIC Director further noted that by withdrawing its invitation from El-Rufai, el-Rufai, NBA has declared war on the other side in the southern Kaduna crisis. 

“Is it not better to hear him out than to lock him out? Is it not better to jaw-jaw than to war-war? The departure of the ambassador, they say, is the beginning of war. By dropping el-Rufai, NBA has declared war on the other side in the southern Kaduna crisis. By so doing, it lost a golden chance to be part of the solution to the conflict. NBA has elected to be part of the problem,” he noted.

“How justifiable is NBA’s decision to exclude Governor el-Rufai from the virtual conference when people like Chief Olusegun Obasanjo of Odi and Zaki Biam fame and Governor Nyesom Wike are among the speakers? Who bulldozed the hotels of innocent people despite court orders? Who visited unspeakable violence on political opponents? Should NBA hobnob with people linked to genocide and undemocratic practices? So why demonise el-Rufai where killers of innocent people and enemies of democracy are idolised?

“MURIC calls on all lawyers from the North to boycott NBA’s AGC in protest against this open declaration of war on Northern Kaduna. Every little action of injustice must spark a reaction if tyranny is to be stopped in the world. NBA has crossed the red line in human relations and conflict management. No single lawyer from the North should participate in the AGC either as a resource person or as a participant unless NBA rescinds its decision to drop el-Rufai from the list of speakers. Injury to one is injury to all.”

MERIDIAN SPY reported earlier the Jigawa State chapter of the association threatened to boycott the conference over the rejection of the Kaduna Governor.

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