Lawyers sign a petition to stop El-Rufai from speaking at NBA
Some lawyers recently called on the NBA leadership to withdraw el-Rufai from the speaker list because of his leadership failure in attending to the mass murders in Southern Kaduna.
A new petition urging the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to withdraw Nasir El-Rufai, Kaduna State Governor, from the list of speakers at the upcoming NBA Annual General Conference. .
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As gathered by Daily Times, the petition, promoted by Usani Odum, has gained almost 500 signatures just hours after it was launched.
The summary of the petition read, “The senseless killings in southern Kaduna must stop. The political correctness of Governor El-Rufai on national TV is diversionary. It is a reversal to have him speak to lawyers on security, when Governor (Babagana) Zulum of Borno a better person can do so.
“We may not be able to do anything to stop the killings, but we can stop the governor from speaking at the NBA-AGC to show our disapproval of the manner he has handled the situation!!”
Meanwhile, several lawyers have publicly indicated that they will not be attending the NBA conference if the leadership of the bar insists on el-Rufai.
In a letter, titled, ‘Request to Withdraw the Offer of Platform at the 2020 Annual General Conference of the NBA to Mallam Nasir el-Rufai’, and addressed to the Chairman, Technical Committee on Conference Planning, NBA, Prof Koyinsola Ajayi, some lawyers said the governor must not be allowed to speak at the conference.
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The letter, which was signed by Silas Onu and Auta Nyada, listed 10 allegations against el-Rufai and his son, Bello, who is a Special Adviser to Kaduna Central lawmaker, Senator Uba Sani.
The lawyers recalled that el-Rufai had during the run-up to the 2019 general elections threatened that any foreigner who interfered in the election would leave Nigeria in “body bags”.
They stated that several human rights groups had ranked the governor low for his intolerance for the opposition.
