He said it was saddening that the government was busy disputing the number of people killed in a clash between members of Boko Haram and a military task force instead of alleviating their suffering.
Government had said only 25 people died and not 185 reported by the media as the casualty figure in the mayhem penultimate Saturday.
Fielding questions from journalists after at the 50th birthday reception in honour of a former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, el-Rufai said God would hold those in government accountable for their actions.
He said, “It is unfortunate that we place so little values on human lives that we will be arguing whether six Nigerians have died or 185 or 200.
When three people were killed in Boston, Obama left the White House to go and commiserate with the people of Boston. Perhaps more than 200 have been killed here and our own President is still sitting in Abuja. It then shows the kind of government that we have. It is pathetic, it is disappointing and God will make them to account.”
When asked to proffer solution to the Boko Haram insurgency, el-Rufai replied, “ They(government) know what to do; they should do it. They should stop pretending that some Nigerians are not citizens; that they are not part of this country; that they should be killed without consequence.”
The former minister also said he was optimistic that the All Progressive Congress would displace the Peoples Democratic Party in 2015.
“We are going to organise and entrench the APC all over the country and by God’s grace, in 2015, the ruling party will be the opposition party,” he added.
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