Hadiza El-Rufai, the former First Lady of Kaduna State, has engaged in a public exchange with Senator Shehu Sani on X (formerly Twitter).
Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th Assembly, had made a post about President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
In the post, he opined that President Tinubu’s traveling out of the country has a way of affecting taxes and prices of commodities.
‘’New law of economics; When the President travels out, Taxes and Prices goes up,” Sani wrote.
Reacting, El-Rufai, fondly called the English teacher on X for her penchant for correcting grammatical errors on the platform, spotted the post and corrected the former lawmaker.
Quoting Sani’s post, the former Kaduna First Lady pointed out that it should have read ‘’go up” and not ‘’goes up.”
Following this, some Nigerians took to the comment section to share their thoughts.
@belloinuwa wrote: “This could literally start a war 😂😂😂.”
@Northerner∅ said: “El-Rufai family and Shehu Sani tussle is unmatched. Astaghfurullah!🤭”
@CroBender wrote: “English not his mother tongue 😂😂”
@imustaphaa: “This one is the same generation thing. I can not comment on it. I come in peace.”
@Balatic wrote, “If you converted this grammatical energy into moral energy and channeled it on your husband, Southern Kaduna population for no reduce significantly during his 8 horrible years in charge.”
@AustinINstate said, “Madam, Uncle senator was right do your research no sentiments please my little understanding :The correct phrase is “price goes up.” Since “price” is a singular noun, it requires the singular verb “goes.”
@Wasser_02 noted: For 8 yrs as governor wife and chief grammar corrector, Kaduna state didnt improve or come first in any external English examination. So ma, this Twitter correction is a waste. You can go ahead to correct mine.
@davidoj_10 said, “If you both advised the government or effected changes in such capacities, we’d be way better than where we are right now but here you’m are correcting grammatical errors.”