Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, was arre State Security Services (SSS) arrested in Abuja on Saturday morning while returning from the United Kingdom at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Spokesman to General Buhari, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, said: “El-Rufai was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, upon arrival from London without being told the reasons for his arrest, and was whisked away to the SSS Headquarters.”
Buhari said he condemned “this brazen act of intimidation, harassment and flagrant violation of citizens’ right in a democratic atmosphere”.Buhari called for the immediate release of el-Rufai from unjust incarceration by the SSS whom he said could then proceed to prefer whatever charges they have against him in court if he had committed any offence known to the laws of the land.
“But to keep him in gaol without any charges would only cast the administration in the mould of a vindictive regime launching a wave of political repression because it is jittery,” Buhari stated.
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