Malam Nasir El-Rufai’s former media adviser, Muyiwa Adekeye, claimed Thursday that security personnel had attempted to arrest the former governor of Kaduna State.
Adekeye claimed that when El-Rufai arrived on an aircraft from Cairo, the security personnel tried to take him into custody.
El-Rufai refused to go with the agents without a formal invitation, according to a statement from Adekeye, and they then grabbed his passport from an assistant.
The former governor’s foreign passport was confiscated by the officials at the airport, he added.
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The full statement from Adekeye reads: “Security agents today attempted to arrest Malam Nasir elrufai as he arrived on a flight from Cairo.
“Malam El-Rufai declined to follow them without a formal Invitation. They however snatched his passport from an aide.”
According to a Wednesday online report, El-Rufai claimed that recent events suggest he would be the next target for an arrest by the Federal Government.
In an interview with BBC Hausa, El-Rufai made the accusation while voicing his worries about what he called an increase in political harassment against opposition leaders.
Some of his close allies have already been arrested, according to the former governor, who recently switched from the ruling All Progressives Congress to the African Democratic Congress.
El-Rufai claimed he had not been arrested yet, but he implied that his allies’ arrests were a warning that he would be targeted.
He further said that politicians were under increasing political pressure to either stay in the ruling party or join the APC.
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He claimed that people were being forced to make judgements out of survival rather than conviction due to the current political environment.
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