One of the children to a sitting Nigerian Governor Bashir El-Rufai, has made derogatory comments targeted at a particular ethnic group in the country.
This comes barely a week after combined military troops from the Nigerian Army and Navy were accused of killing dozens of innocent citizens, in Ogbaru, Anambra State.
On Monday, El-Rufai had hailed the media interview a former governor of Kano State and presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) Rabiu Kwankwaso.
During the interview, Kwankwaso advised his counterpart from the Labour Party Peter Obi, to accept to become his running mate in the forthcoming elections.
He stated that with Obi on the ticket of the NNPP as a vice-presidential candidate in 2023, the South-East would be better positioned to actualize its presidential ambition in the future.
“I am ecstatic Kwankwaso really put these delusional lunatics in their place on that interview,” El-Rufai tweeted.
When another user with the handle @Pauly51158264 told him, “You’ll end up causing yourself harm,” El-Rufai responded even more harshly.
He wrote: “From you harmless goats from Anambra? ?????”
This is not the first time the son of the Governor of Kaduna State Nasir El-Rufai would be making such debasing remarks on the platform, and he has often come under heavy criticisms for his uncivil utterances.
He also alleged on Monday that award-winning investigative journalist David Hundeyin, who fled the country in the aftermath of the controversial nationwide EndSARS protest which took place in 2020, was gay.
“David Hundeyin lied that he’s a homosexual so he can have asylum. It is what he does. Then he comes online to pretend to be an investigative journalist. Guy just keep bending over for oyinbo at expensive hotels and collecting your social security checks,” the younger El-Rufai wrote.
He however, returned to the platform hours later to offer a public apology after he was called out: “I went too far & vulgar with Hyundai. I apologise to those I respect & didn’t expect that from me”.