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El Rufai lies against Obi at Arewa House meeting

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Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Governor of Kaduna State

Kaduna State governor, Nasir El Rufai, continues to perpetuate his falsehood that Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, ordered his detention in Anambra in 2013, while he (Obi) was governor.

El Rufai, while making a contribution Monday, at the Interactive Session of the Arewa Joint Committee at Arewa House, Kaduna, featuring select presidential candidates for the 2023 election, regaled the audience how Obi ordered the State Security Services (SSS) to detain him in his hotel room, while on election observation assignment for the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Anambra State.

He spoke in apparent effort to bolster the chances of the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who had just addressed the session.

“Your Excellencies, the organisers, our elders; in 2013, I went to Anambra State as an official of the APC to witness the by-election for governorship. Your next guest, Peter Obi, was governor; he got me arrested and detained for 48 hours in my hotel room.

“Now, I’m the governor of Kaduna State and he is coming to Kaduna. In addition to the police and SSS, I have One Mechanised Division, Nigerian Army, here. If I need to arrest and detain anyone… But we are northerners, we’re civilised, we don’t do things like that,” El Rufai lied to his audience.

But just as the Kaduna governor was releasing his fable, the internet began to buzz with a video and other reports of El Rufai’s interview narrating his encounter in the hands of the SSS without the name of Peter Obi being mentioned.

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“I was going from my hotel room to have breakfast and I was blocked by three SSS officials, holding AK-47 and threatening me, that they had directives from Abuja, to restrict me, to my room. I said on what basis? They said that is their directive and I said, well, let me tell you, Nigeria is a democratic country and I have freedom to move and I intend to move, I intend to go anywhere I want and you can’t stop me from going,” El Rufai was heard saying in an interview broadcast by TV360.

In an interview he granted the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on the same incident, at the ‘Finotel Hotel’ where he lodged, El Rufai did not as much as mentioned Obi’s name.

He said: “I arrived in Awka by 7 p.m. on Friday and had a brief session with the APC candidate, Sen. Chris Ngige. When I came out to have my dinner, I saw three heavily armed SSS officers at the hotel.

“I asked them why they were following me; they told me that they were protecting me because Awka is not safe.

“I told them that I came with my own security. This morning, as I was about to have breakfast, they blocked the corridor and tried to restrain me from going out but I pushed by and went to the restaurant to eat.

“After my breakfast, I will be going to the APC Situation Room in town to monitor the election. I am being unlawfully detained here.”

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