El-Rufai To Southern Kaduna What Adolf Hitler Was To Jews — Babachir Lawal

By Remi Adebayo

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal, has expressed solidarity with the Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa, over his comment on the alleged maltreatment of the Southern Kaduna people during the administration of Mallam Nasir El-Rufai as Kaduna State governor.

Lawal, in a post reacting to the criticisms trailing General Musa's remarks  on his Facebook page on Saturday, the former SGF noted that most attacks against the Defense Minister were mostly made on the Arewa Consultative Forum platform and similar others majorly populated by Northerners of the Arewa persuasion.

"I have tried to restrain myself from reacting to the fatuous articles attacking the Honourable Minister of Defence, Christopher Gwabin Musa on his comments on Nasiru Rufai. I have observed that most of these attacks occur on the Arewa Consultative Forum platform and similar others majorly populated by Northerners of the “Arewa” persuasion.

"Whatever Nasiru's defenders might say in his defence, I concede their right to do so being his Fulani/ Moslem/ “Arewa” compatriots and also probably, some beneficiaries of his ignoble actions against the Southern Kaduna ethnic nationalities," Lawal said.  

He maintained that such views did not change the experiences of Southern Kaduna people while El-Rufai was the governor of the state. 

"To them, and by extension us (all  Northern ethnic Nationalities and Christians), Nasiru El-rufai was what Adolf Hitler was to the Jews; no more no less. This is their reality, which as Christopher says, is mercifully being addressed by the current governor who himself is a Fulani/Moslem but of a merciful type; God bless his soul," he said.

Lawal vowed that any attempt by compatriots of the former Kaduna State governor "to lynch one of the best of ours in the person of Gen. Musa, a brilliant patriot and a highly regarded military officer who served out his tenure with distinction" will be resisted.

He advised El-Rufai's defenders to instead  focus their attention on traditional rulers, senior clergy, federal ministers and senators.from among them "but are currently mirred in controversies and  allegations of being collaborators of bandits and kidnappers that are ravaging the "Arewa" of their dreams". 

We advise that they focus the millions of their out-of-school children roaming the streets with pans in their hands and who are easy pool for recruitment into insurgency and banditry groups", Lawal said. 

He urged the former governor's supporters to leave Gen Musa "out of the predicaments of their own making".