{"id":28239,"date":"2020-08-21T10:37:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T10:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=28239"},"modified":"2020-08-21T10:37:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T10:37:13","slug":"youve-embraced-injustice-el-rufai-tells-nba-after-hes-dropped-as-speaker-at-planned-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=28239","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ve embraced injustice, El-Rufai tells NBA after he\u2019s dropped as speaker at planned conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has accused the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) of embracing injustice, unfairness and an indifference to the rule of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He stated this in response to the legal body\u2019s decision to delete his name from among speakers for its 2020 annual conference, slated to hold from August 24-26, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following opposition by lawyers and other concerned groups against El-Rufai\u2019s inclusion among those to speak at the annual conference, the NBA on Thursday withdrew its invitation extended to the governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a tweet on its Twitter handle, @NigBarAssoc., said that the decision to withdraw El-Rufai\u2019s invitation to the conference was taken during one of its meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, a statement on Thursday by El-Rufai, through his special adviser, Muyiwa Adekeye in response to the NBA\u2019s decision read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen lawyer friends requested Malam Nasir El-Rufai<\/a> to accept the invitation of the NBA to participate in a panel discussion on national identity, he accepted as part of his commitment to having a national conversation and the evolution of a national consensus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNBA platform or not, these worthy conversations must continue. He will continue to make his voice heard on the things our country needs to do for its progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile the NBA has the right to determine who speaks at its event, El-Rufai says he did not seek the lawyers\u2019 platform and do not see the development as enough reason to be agitated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEl-Rufai believes with happenings in the lead up to the NBA\u2019s decision<\/a>, there is a need to clear the air just as he accused the lawyers\u2019 body of following what he described as a \u201cone-sided narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe NBA leadership, as far as the Kaduna leader is concerned, have by removing him as a speaker in the conference, embraced injustice, unfairness and an indifference to the rule of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor an association, whose bread and butter is about justice to make a ruling based on the stridency of people who lampoon judicial processes against certain individuals without hearing the other side is odd.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement further said that \u201cit bears noting that in its response to pressure, the NBA leadership has signalled an unfortunate embrace of injustice, unfairness, absence of fair hearing and total disregard for the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noting that there were several defamatory statements in the petition that led to his withdrawal from the conference, the statement said, such statements remained matters that would be treated differently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has accused the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) of embracing injustice, unfairness and an indifference to the rule of law. He stated this in response to the legal body\u2019s decision to delete his name from among speakers for its 2020 annual conference, slated to hold from August 24-26, 2020. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nYou\u2019ve embraced injustice, El-Rufai tells NBA after he\u2019s dropped as speaker at planned conference » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=28239\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=28239#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Politics\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"You\u2019ve embraced injustice, El-Rufai tells NBA after he\u2019s dropped as speaker at planned conference\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"You\u2019ve embraced injustice, El-Rufai tells NBA after he\u2019s dropped as speaker at planned conference » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=28239","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=28239#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Politics","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"You\u2019ve embraced injustice, El-Rufai tells NBA after he\u2019s dropped as speaker at planned conference"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=10\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai has accused the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) of embracing injustice, unfairness and an indifference to the rule of law. He stated this in response to the legal body\u2019s decision to delete his name from among speakers for its 2020 annual conference, slated to hold from August 24-26, 2020.…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28239"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}