Hadiza El-Rufai, wife of Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has stood in the defence of her son, Bello, over his clash with a Twitter user.
Bello engaged the Twitter user known as @oewonah on Sunday in a battle of words.
The man referred to Bello as ‘daddy’s boy’ and appeared to have called his father names.
Bello fired back with a statement adjudged by some to mean a threat to gang-rape his opponent’s mother.
“Oh and tell your mother I’m passing her to my friends tonight. No Igbo sounds please! Tueh,” he wrote in the tweet now deleted.
Mrs El-Rufai, a writer, however, said on Twitter that she did not see any threat of rape in the tweet.
“All you people talking about @B_ELRUFAI,” she wrote, “don’t @ me. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. All is fair in love and war.
“My belief: Respect everyone, but take no shit from anyone. I didn’t see any threats of rape. I would never condone that.”
El-Rufai is currently receiving treatment in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19.
