The inclusion of Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai as one of the speakers at the annual event The Platform has generated protest on social media.
The annual programme organised by the senior pastor of the Covenant Christian Centre, Poju Oyemade, has attracted notable speakers over the years in discussing the challenges facing Nigeria.
With the hashtag #BoycottThePlatform on Twitter, some Nigerians have begun calling for the programme to be boycotted following El-Rufai’s controversial post in 2013 where he used Jesus Christ in a bad joke.
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Among the speakers listed for this year’s event are Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, and former aviation minister Osita Chidoka.
The protesters want El-Rufai removed as speaker just the way the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) was forced to remove him as speaker at its conference last year following protest over allegations of human rights abuse.
NBA distanced itself from the divisive Elrufai, for GOOD REASON. Apart from superintending the killing of Christians in Southern Kaduna, & his “body bags” statement, El-Rufai have no legitimacy being among a congregation of brethrens. We are unequally yoked!!#BoycottThePlatform
— NEFERTITI (@firstladyship) April 29, 2021
This is the guy they are inviting to #ThePlatform?
Tomorrow, they'll say "he was a teenager when he composed this tweet".
I support #BoycottThePlatform pic.twitter.com/5ptbliveyH
— Onye Nkuzi (@cchukudebelu) April 29, 2021
How can a man who arrogantly removed a Christian deputy and replaced him with a Muslim deputy be invited to a Christian program to speak? #BoycottThePlatform
— Thεό Abu (@TheoAbuAgada) April 29, 2021
I will not be attending or engaging in anything concerning The Platform as long as Elrufai is on it. #BoycottThePlatform
— Her Fokken Majesty 🥰👑 (@cremechic11) April 29, 2021
I endorse #BoycottThePlatform.
We must be deliberate about leadership and our future going forward.
Dear @pastorpoju, if we fellowship with evil, can we pray for the grace of GOD to abound?
A Bigot on The only Platform is a conversation taken too far. #BoycottThePlatform https://t.co/euxoHWP0dF
— Sir. Ariyo-Dare Atoye (@AriyoAristotle) April 29, 2021
Dear @pastorpoju ,if the NIgerian Bar Association could rescind the invitation for @elrufai a well known purveyor of hate and violence with unbidden hate towards Christians I see no reason why the Church of Jesus Christ should have him on their stage #BoycottThePlatform pic.twitter.com/NXtPvlTaKp
— very Nigerian (@verynigeriangal) April 29, 2021
#BoycottThePlatform
Someone that once accused Christians of using their terrorists killed loved ones to solicit for money abroad. Very insensitive divisionist hating figure is an insult/injury to Christian gathering. pic.twitter.com/AcJPKPvoek
— Centurion✊🚀 (@IgweFrancis16) April 29, 2021
#BoycottThePlatform
How will el rufai who said this be invited to speak in a Christian gathering. Can the Christian organizers talk about the other religion and go and speak their gathering? pic.twitter.com/dMr4T8MQ97
— xmen (@_anubankz) April 29, 2021
#BoycottThePlatform till ElRufai, the bigot is gone
— Her Fokken Majesty 🥰👑 (@cremechic11) April 29, 2021
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