Apology from Bello, Son of Governor El-Rufai, After Controversial Twitter Threat
Bello El-Rufai, the son of Kaduna state governor Nasir El-Rufai, has issued an apology several days after making a controversial threat to "pass" someone's mother around to his friends, a remark that was widely construed as a suggestion of gang rape.
On Sunday, April 12, in a series of tweets, Bello had engaged in a heated exchange with some Twitter users, using comments that were deemed as ethnic slurs in his tweets regarding a debate about Donald Trump and President Buhari's management of the Coronavirus pandemic.
He also sent a direct message to one of the Twitter users, threatening to "pass" the user's mother to his friends.
"Tell your mother I’m passing her to my friends tonight," he wrote in a direct message.
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