el-Rufai warns foreigners collaborating with opposition, as Citizens say US, UK, EU have failed integrity test as friends of country
“They are also querying the moral justification for the US, UK and EU to rank Nigeria at all in their “so called” corruption index when they know they would be the ones to equally make fighting corruption difficult cooperating with looters in the country.”
Governor of Kaduna State, North West Nigeria, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has warned the United States (U.S), the United Kingdom (U.K) and the European Union (EU) against undue interference in Nigeria’s political affairs.
The US, UK and EU, apparently believing what was generally known to all Nigerians as campaign by falsehood from opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and their cohorts in the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), had issued “coordinated statements” after President Muhammadu Buhari suspended the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Friday, January 25, 2019 on order of constituted court, Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT).
Acting based on outcries from the opposition and lawyers, meaning, many have said, that the foreign nations, which at one time or another had called Nigeria different negative names around corruption, insincerely do not have interest in the country getting out of the endemic problem confronting its effort to grow and develop.
But Governor el-Rufai warned them to stop it as the they have no such right to meddle in ways the government is working hard to get Nigeria out of the mess, which is believed to be largely perpetrated by judges and lawyers.
Speaking on Tuesday Live, a late-night programme on the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) which is anchored by Cyril Stober, el-Rufai warned the UK, US and EU to desist from covert or overt interference in Nigeria’s affairs or face fatal consequences.
By what has happened, the PDP politicians are now in the eyes of the storms as watchers of events and who will be the electorates to decide who emerges as President come February 16, are already querying the party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s temerity to oppose, with full international lobbies, legal action taken against a self-confessed corrupt Chief law officer of a country like Onnoghen if not that they are accomplices in the crime.
They are also querying the moral justification for the US, UK and EU to rank Nigeria at all in their “so called” corruption index when they know they would be the ones to equally make fighting corruption difficult cooperating with looters in the country.
One of them, agreeing with el-Rufai’s salvo, said: “This open insincerity of the West and Europe is now an eye opener for Nigeria to begin to rethink on which nation it choose as it’s foreign friends since US, UK and EU have proved to be enemies of its progress against corruption, poverty, industrial and technological development”.
