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’.
