By Sam Omatseye
This is not
the time to hold grudges against Malam Nasir El-Rufai. It is not the time to
say he, like Napoleon, suffers a small man’s syndrome, or that he pulled down
the homes of rivals. It is not the time to say his mind has not grown above his
height, and that he does not deserve to speak about who is a Nigerian.
*Gov El Rufai and President Buhari
So, some
avatars of liberty will say the Nigerian Bar Association railed against the
three Johns of thinkers: Locke, Mill, Rousseau. They invited him to their
conference only to disinvite him. The man salivated over an empty table. They
probably did that because the man has a sour tongue, a fratricidal impulse,
pitches tribe against tribe and, in the vexed issue of southern Kaduna,
El-Rufai has taken sides, and has anointed violence against peace.
