Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has apologised for the ‘Jesus Joke’ he shared on twitter.
A certain 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’.
The joke did not seem to go down well
with some of his Christian followers who respectfully protested the joke
calling it distasteful and obnoxious.
The former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) had to go to his Facebook page to publish a full apology.
In the statement, El Rufai referred to
the joke as an innocent attempt to show the godlessness of the Jonathan
government to belittle anyone that dares to ask them to be accountable.
In the statement, he said, ‘To those
who were genuinely offended by the retweet, I apologize. I did not mean
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’.
Source: NET
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