Hassan Turaki.
A former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said he was aware of rumours making the rounds over his possible arrest upon arrival from Cairo, Egypt.
Mr El-Rufai stated this on his twitter handle while responding to a post by one of his supporters, Imran U. Wakili, on Tuesday.
He, however, vowed to return to Nigeria on February 20, to attend the book launch of former head of state, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB.
While dismissing the threats, he said the rumour has been ongoing since July 2024, when the Kaduna House of Assembly’s report began circulating.
He, however, said, “they freaked out when we challenged the legality of the premeditated defamation and went to every length to compromise the judicial process, and this is continuing at the Court of Appeal”.
El-Rufai said: I have been hearing these same rumours of arrest, detention, and torture in some dungeon in the NSA’s office.
Since July 2024, when the so-called report of the Kaduna Assembly began circulating.
He said the perpetrators have sent such similar messages of intimidation and threats through many of his friends, family and political associates, “because they want me to go on self-imposed exile. I will not”.
The former FCT minister also said he would be suspending his academic engagements and spend more time in Nigeria than ever before.
“I have now put all my previous academic and language-learning plans on hold and will spend more time in Nigeria than ever before. Silence is no longer golden. Inaction has never been an option.
“The arrest, detention, and torture of perceived political enemies are nothing new in human affairs. I have been arrested and detained thrice in the past for expressing my views of previous governments El’rufa’i said
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