By Ishaya Ibrahim
An Abuja based filmmaker (name withheld for security reason), has set ablaze a copy of Nasir El-Rufai’s book – The Accidental Public Servant – over a comment, the governor made that foreign observers who meddle in Nigeria’s election would go back in body bags.
El-Rufai is the Governor of Kaduna State and was once Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
He made the comment recently as a guest on a national television programme- Tuesday Night Live- anchored by Cyril Stober.
The filmmaker said there is nothing to learn from the person of El-Rufai who made such comment.
“This is the man that portrays himself in this book (The Accidental Public Servant) as if he is one detribalised, no-nonsense Nigerian technocrat. He is now making this kind of unguarded statement. There is absolutely nothing to learn from this kind of a leader,” he said while setting the book on fire.
The filmmaker later told TheNiche that “all along,” he had “held El-Rufai in high esteem,” believing that he represented the crop of leaders Nigeria needed.
He said he bought the book in 2016 at the rate of N5,000 to know more about the governor. But when he heard the governor on NTA issuing death threats to foreign observers, he said the governor’s book was not worth being on his shelf.