Presidency, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Blast El-Rufai

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has given Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, former minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) seven days’ ultimatum to tell Nigerians the person that gave CAN President Ayo Oritsejafor a private jet or risk having his dirty character exposed to the public.

Simultaneously, President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday urged Nigerians to beware of former FCT minister who he described as “a double-minded and unstable man in all his ways.”

In a statement in Abuja by Reno Omokri, his Special Assistant (News Media), the President urged the public not to be misled by the machinations of el-Rufai, “a man who is in dire need of prayers and perhaps psychological assistance.”

In addition, CAN also advised the former FCT minister to go for a psychiatric test because of his snide remarks against Oritsejafor’s credibility. In the interview in a national daily, El-Rufai described Oritsejafor as a pretender, an ethnic bigot, a person devoid of credibility and a PDP chief propagandist.

In a jstatement by Rev. Emmanuel Dziggau and Elder Sunday Oibe, CAN’s National Director (Research, Planning and Strategy), CAN said the fact that el-Rufai abused Jesus Christ in his tweets and Christians ignored him did not give him the impetus to make unguarded comments about Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, who is the leader of Christians in Nigeria.

It reminded the former minister that Christians respect other faith and never abused the Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III who is the leader of Muslims in Nigeria.

Similarly, the Presidency said the double-speak nature of el-Rufai made him shower encomiums on Buhari in his latest interview contrary to a damning conclusion on the general in 2010.

It claimed the ex-minister was only condemning Jonathan because he was not given a government appointment. “Nasir el-Rufai wanted something from the President which was why he visited him at the Presidential Villa to heap unsolicited praise on the President in 2010. When he did not get what he wanted, he became bitter,” it concluded.