{"id":11302,"date":"2020-08-19T20:21:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T20:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=11302"},"modified":"2020-08-19T20:21:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T20:21:39","slug":"el-rufai-barred-from-speaking-at-nba-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/19\/el-rufai-barred-from-speaking-at-nba-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Rufai Barred From Speaking At NBA Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>About 500 people have signed a new petition asking the Nigerian Bar Association to remove Nasir El-Rufai, the Kaduna State Governor, from the list of speakers in the upcoming Annual General Conference of the NBA.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>This is just as some lawyers called on the NBA leadership to remove El-Rufai from the list of speakers due to his leadership failure in the wake up of the killings in Southern Kaduna as well as his human rights record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petition, which was started by Usani Odum on change.org, has garnered nearly 500 signatures barely hours after it was initiated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The summary of the petition read, \u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe 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!!\u201d<br>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter, titled, \u2018Request to Withdraw the Offer of Platform at the 2020 Annual General Conference of the NBA to Mallam Nasir el-Rufai\u2019, and addressed to the Chairman, Technical Committee on Conference Planning,&nbsp; NBA, Prof Koyinsola Ajayi, some lawyers said the governor must not be allowed to speak at the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 \u201cbody bags\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They stated that several human rights groups had ranked el-Rufai low for his intolerance for the opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Punch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 500 people have signed a new petition asking the Nigerian Bar Association to remove Nasir El-Rufai, the Kaduna State Governor, from the list of speakers in the upcoming Annual General Conference of the NBA. &nbsp;&nbsp;This is just as some lawyers called on the NBA leadership to remove El-Rufai from the list of speakers due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-naija-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/NBA-Conference.jpg?fit=600%2C320&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}