Godfatherism: CSO warns Tinubu against disparaging el-Rufai



A Kaduna-based Civil Society Organisation, the Democrats Solidarity League (DSL) has warned Senator Bola Tinubu to stop disparaging Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state over his comments on stopping godfatherism in Nigerian politics. 
Rising from its emergency meeting on Thursday in Kaduna, Chairman of DSL, Malam Adam Isa said that such action is unwarranted, unacceptable and abuse of the governor’s fundamental human right. 
According to Isa,  “the rate at which Tinubu is disrespecting Northern leaders like Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state is unwarranted, unacceptable and an abuse of the democratic right to freedom of speech guaranteed by the Nigerian constitution. 

“Senator Tinubu and some of his friends in Abuja have in recent years become so intolerant of criticism that they take honest criticisms personal.”
Speaking on the raging debate over the need to remove godfatherism from the democratic space as suggested by Governor el-Rufai, the group said “the governor spoke the minds of millions of Nigerians, who are fed up with imposition of incompetent people on the democratic space.
“The world has come a long way from the time of imposing  personal wishes of individual politicians on Nigerians. The world has moved on. 
“It is unacceptable that Chief Tinubu will unleash his attack dogs on a governor for speaking the minds of millions of Nigerians who yearn earnestly for candidates of their choice at the polls and not candidates that may be used to subvert the true wishes of the people,” the group added. 

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