Bashir El-Rufai, the son of former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, has sparked controversy after suggesting that violence in Southern Kaduna would persist if residents continued to attack Fulani herdsmen.
TheNewsGuru reports that Bashir, via the microblogging platform, X formerly Twitter, deleted the tweet shortly after facing backlash.
The former governor’s son remark came in response to a post from an X user, @qykali, who had criticized him for referring to President Bola Tinubu as “Pablo.”
The user also accused Bashir’s father of overseeing widespread ethnic violence in Southern Kaduna during his tenure as governor.
In reaction, Bashir wrote: “It is your stupid mother that is an elephant. And Southern Kaduna residents will keep seeing sheghe (trouble or suffering) if they continue to attack indigenous Fulani herdsmen. Oloshi.”