El-Rufai: Man Files Petition To Counter Omokri’s Travel Ban Request To UK, EU
A petition filed by former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, asking the United Kingdom and the European Union to impose travel ban on Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has been countered by another petition.
Omokri’s petition, which was filed on Change.org, has garnered over 23,581 signatures within 48 hours.
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The former presidential aide is urging the UK and EU to impose visa ban on El-Rufai for allegedly “promoting genocide and religious and political intolerance” in Nigeria.
Omokri claimed in the petition that: “On December 3, 2016, he (El-Rufai) admitted that he paid killer herdsmen who killed Nigerian citizens, because they were of the same ethnicity as him. Since that admission, there has been an intense escalation of the killings of mostly Christians in Kaduna, and on August 25, 2020, suspected herdsmen abducted seven schoolchildren and their teacher from Prince Academy, in Kaduna. They have not been seen or heard of since then
“On September 8, 2014, Nasir El-Rufai falsely accused former President Jonathan and then President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor of founding and funding Boko Haram to the tune of N50 billion. On January 27, 2013, he insulted the Lord Jesus Christ on Twitter. On February 6, 2019, he threatened foreign observers, including observers from the EU and UK with death, warning that they would return in “body bags”, should they intervene in Nigeria.
“On July 15, 2012, Nasir El-Rufai said, and I quote “We will write this for all to read. Anyone, soldier or not that kills the Fulani takes a loan repayable one day no matter how long it takes.” This threat has been carried out in Southern Kaduna were there is an ongoing genocide of Christians under El-Rufai’s watch,” among others.
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But a counter petition filed by one Hassan Halilu has urged the UK and EU to disregard Omokri’s petition, saying the ex-presidential aide’s “hatred for the progressive Governor is not hidden.”
Halilu described Omokri as “an enemy of the state,” and that his request to the UK and EU and was unjustified. His counter petition has so far gathered 487 signatures.
