Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has apologised for the ‘Jesus joke’ he retweeted on Twitter.
Ogunyemi Bukola, with the handle @zebbook, had tweeted: “If Jesus criticized Jonathan’s govt, Maku/Abati/Okupe will say he slept with Mary Magdalene”. After this, El-Rufai copied the tweet and added the letters “LWKMD” which means “Laugh Wan Kill Me Die” [Laughter will kill me].
The infamous tweet
Professor Pat Utomi, a respected voice, immediately went on Facebook to show his displeasure.
I’m at a loss for words! We should draw the line somewhere? The most Sacred of names must never be desecrated an the altar of politics. PU,” he wrote.
El-Rufai has now decided to publish a full statement on his Facebook page, apologising for the joke.
The full statement reads:
“Hello Friends. I have been travelling and try to catch some sleep in between the last 24 hours and missed all the furore arising from my retweet of Ogunyemi Bukola’s (@zeebook) joke Maku eat al and Jesus. I must say I am taken aback by the extent of desperate misrepresentation of what was an innocuous attempt to show the godlessness of the Jonathanians to denigrate anyone that dares to ask them to be accountable.
“To those who were genuinely offended by the retweet, I apologize. I did not meant to offend anyone, neither did the @zeebook I know and featured as one of the Young Voices in my Friday Column. Jesus or Isa Alaihis Salaam is a respected prophet of Islam. Every Muslim accepts this in addition to his miraculous virgin birth. It is therefore absurd for any Muslim believer to disrespect Jesus Christ.
“I hope those in this class will see my point of view and accept my apologies for any offense or disappointment caused. And I advise everyone… to read @zeebook’s timeline and mine to read EXACTLY what was tweeted rather than the second-hand reports of certain people who ALWAYS twist whatever I write or not write to achieve their morally-repugnant objectives.
“To those in that class of liar – the political contractors who tried to attribute the entire statement to me to destroy perceived political capital, I say keep on doing that till the day your cups will be full. Everything these days is reduced to posturing for 2015,but those doing it do not even know which one of us will be alive to witness the events of that time. I leave all those to God and their conscience.
“To the Warriors of God, who misinterpret the Scriptures (both Bilble and Qur’an) and pretend to be capable of fighting His battles, please learn from history. The multiple Crusades and Jihads are yet to convert the entire human race into one religion. If God wished us all to be of one religion, He would have made us so. So please leave God’s work to Him, and just be good to other humans.
“I thank all my friends who stood up for me in this saga. They know me better than what the desperate Jonathanians want to paint as El-Rufai. And those that wish to know me a little better should please read my forthcoming book. Thanks and God Bless.”
No body need ur apology keep it 2 ur seif.fool
No body need ur apology keep it 2 ur seif.fool
When the wrath of God fall on him, he’s on his own! We can’t fight for God so he can ride on.
When the wrath of God fall on him, he’s on his own! We can’t fight for God so he can ride on.
Himm…..
Don’t mind them joor
God punish ur generation, u fool
Jesus Christ is not known for immorality… May be he’s refering to the other guy…!! Lol!
I tink He should nw see d diffrences btw ur nw. If it were d christians dat tok abt mohammed,he in particular wil lead d religious way. I pray God to 4give him 4 his lack of wisdom.
When u.are with Obj,you did same.what has changed Mr super Minister of an era? I tink am not too convince of your born again sir. its too drastic
This is not an aapology. The IDIO only further the mockery of Jesus.
If by my undastndin, el-rufai as a muslim shld mock @ jesus alaihissalm, dn thr’s a pro elswhere cos islam warnd us nt 2 rjt, nglt & even cstigate any of Allah’s prphts 4rm Adam 2 Muh’d (saw). I blivd el-rufai is bn misintapreted as he ritely said.
he want to use joke to express whats in ur mine eh,the di vinci code method,may God forgive you
Fool. Brown was tryin to make a story line for Sophia and her Family, everythin is fiction, Brown in His conclusion frm hs book ‘da vinchi code’ religion is sacred and most important thing is for someone to belief. Anybody cn make a story frm any religion bt d diff is maturity. Some years ago they made image of a prophet in Denmark some fools like u started killing ppl Nigeria. If it were to b against ur prophet, i trust our ppl in d north.
D lord will judge U̶̲̥̅̊ and ur uterances,let ur fellow woprshippers see hw maturity counts,only God knows wht would have happen if it were to be done to d moslems!!!
I don’t know why we tend 2 b religious in issues like this. We are never religious when it comes to doing justice 2 one another.if Nigeria will break apart, it will b thru religion!
If a blind man is leading blinded followers they will all fall into the pit. El-rufai is blinded by the islamic gods (the devil) leaded by blind muhammad who is now in the pit call Hell burning forever. E-rufai, don’t be deceived GOD can not be mocked,what ever a man sore he ripe. JESUS is THE NAME of GOD. Give your life to JESUS and confess HIM your LORD and PERSONEL savior and HE will take you as one among HIS son
John emmanuel, You must be out of ur sense…. U have shown that u r a complete illiterate for abusing our beloved prophet (SAW), I wish I could see u u would have been the first person I will…. U can say whatever u want to say but never repeat what u said coz it is going to be a disaster 4 u and ur family….. If u r saying that christianty is all abt belief in Isa Alaihissalam , then we THE MUSLIMS are more christians than the christians themselves…. We believe in Isa Alaihissalam and all the prophets of Allah (SWA) , and we love all of them and we have respect for them
Maishawiy you are a useless born fool with pea nuts for brains. You lack any form of reasoning because you reason with ur anus.
You support el rufai because he’s a muslim. I don’t blame u, you are being controlled by moh’d from hell, where u and El rufai along with all the blood sucking muslims will end up
El-Rufai is an honourable, he has apologized and let the critics shut the fuck up!
See hw stupid u r…..we don’t need his appology, let him ask God for forgiveness cos by d time he start reaping d harsh effect, u ll cry for him.
@john emmanuel u re a fool for saying muhammed is in d pit of hell
Give your life to JESUS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD becos you are in darkness
El rufai is worse than senseless things and idle creatures. His words gave him away as the least islamic bufoon and the world worst simpleton.abecederian like rufai should be told that there is no promise of twenty-seven virgins for mocking God.may your days on earth be dark!
JESUS is a name that cannot be mocked. Mr. El-Rufai, let me believe that the apology is from a sincere heart and not ‘political behaviourism’. If its 4 political reasons that u hav apologized, u better confess 4rm ur hrt nw 4 JESUS is faithful and just 2 4giv u and cleanse u 4rm all un righteousness (1 John 1:9). And pls, the name of God shld not be used in vain 4 any reason (Exodus 20:7). And remember, God cannot be mocked (Galatians 6:7).
If it were other way round,i’m sure many lives would have been lost in name of protecting thier prophet,el rufai,God knows the best punishment you diserve
Its an absurb, totaly unprofesional for a man of his pedigre to used such joke conciously or unconciously. He has reduced hmself to the last aim of an animal. Apologz to any1 can nvr change anythin bcs uv nvr get a 2nd chance to make ur 1st impresion!
Islam is a religion of hypocrites and vipers. If Jesus was a “respected prophet” of islam why would he partake in such an abominable joke? Would he retweet such if it was prophet mohammed that was joked about? They can’t deceive us with their lie that islam respects Jesus. Otherwise they would not be attacking churches and killing innocent christian worshippers. Islam is AntiChrist. And El Rufai and his brother Sanusi of CBN are islamic bigots and terrorists.
God is so merciful and gracious that most times, we take Him for granted. But we can’t continue in sin that grace might abide. Let’s leave JUDGEMENT to God. Leaving judgements to God has always been the Christians’ way!
Here it’s El-Rufai. Is there no moral in Christianity?. Fools who know little about their religion now turn God’s vicegerent to say Muhammed is in hell, Muslims are vipers and …
All in the name of castigating El-Rufai, We’ve started attacking another religion. What is the fate of those that don’t belief in the unseen. No true Muslim will shed the blood of Allah’s creature. Why will you take the soul which you cannot create. It’s absurd.
Many argue about issues which they have little or no knowledge about. Many are born into religion, they never bothered to go in search of the true God. If the world is to have a single religion, then many would be turned to fools. We’ve got the right to protect our religion but not with violence. Why not answer these questions.
What’s on your mind?.
Your relationship with your neighbour?
What impact have you in your country of residence?.
How many sad souls have you made happy?
What kind of business do you engage in?
Do you make up to deprave the souls of innocents faithful?
What kind of life do you live?
Change the world by your moral. show love to others. Let people ask you of your religion . Let people envy your religion.
God is not interested in how you look but what is in your heart. Enough of all these religion nonsense.
Prophet Muhammed lived with Christians and Jews in Medinah, Saudi Arabia. He governed them. Showed them love.
Jesus, son of Mary is a Prophet of Allah. Lived with the Jews. Showed them Love.
Why not show love to others regardless of their faith.
No one has gone to heaven/hell and back to tell us how they look. We read about them in Books. That’s belief in the unseen. Live for Good. For one day you cease to exist.
Cool being a Muslim.
Hisa
Thats a silly way of painting islam to livingproofs of muslims living in today’s world. May be you go say this to Christians on another planet
If GOD is offended with ur foolish comment….. he knows how to handle a bastard like u
@Justice, i believe u av said it all. We should all behave matured nd put this whole sturf to rest. Τ̲̅ђε̲̣̣̣̥ politicians re doing their own and they re looking for those that they will get involve in this their sh**t life. Pls brothers nd sisters let’s put this to bed nd move on with our lives
Hmmmm, I wonder why we have allowed events in the north and the boko haram issue to becloud our sense of reasoning and way of life as christians. Look at the way we have turned to Gods footmen overnite and messengers of doom. EL-Rufai gave a retweet of a tweet that really was absurd and nonsensical in it entirety buh a closer look frm the source of the tweet will reveal that the person dat posted the tweet should be a so called christian. We are not concerned about that but the fact that it appeared on Rufai’s page, all hell got loose. He has apologised yet we keep raining thunder and brimestone. Are we truelly christians? Christianity is a way of life and not a religion. Christ showed us the way to live and we must follow him as little Christ! They did worse things to Christ wen he was here on earth, did he command fire and brimestone? where is this violent spirit frm? vengeance is mine says the Lord! can we fight for God? He knows the heart of Rufai wen he twitted this statement and his heart wen he apologised. God will deal with him based on his heart desposition>
El rufai said LWKMD, he shld not worry he will soon die for following mumu pple on twitter
ISAH, i enjoyed your encouragement on moral values etc….however, it is another blasphemy to tell Christians that our Lord and personal saviour Jesus Christ was a prophet etc. i advice you to learn other peoples belief and respect it, not trying to create problem by feigning ignorance of it. for example, Mohammed was not a prophet of Jesus Christ. do you get it??