A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Malam Nasir el-Rufai, was on Saturday in Awka prevented from moving out of his hotel room to monitor the Anambra Governorship Election currently ongoing.
El-Rufai said at the `Finotel Hotel' where he lodged that some armed men of the State Security Service (SSS) restrained him from moving out of the hotel to monitor the election.
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,'' he said.
One of the SSS men entered the restaurant and confiscated the reporter's tape recorder and deleted the recorded interview before returning it to her.
When contacted on telephone, the Director of SSS in the state, Mr A.U. Okeiyi, confirmed the report, saying that el-Rufai was being protected.
"el-Rufai is not an ordinary person. If anything happens to him, they will blame the security,'' he said.
Heavily armed security men were seen guarding the premises of the hotel.
NE monitored the situation and gathered that he was only released after 23 hours, the furious statesman however took to micro-blogging website, twitter to share the news of his release, also calling Gov Peter Obi a fool.
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do u think dat anambra is a place u will go and mess up any how and go easy.thank ur God becos had it been dat those guys u send home from abuja see u.ur name is sory.usless aboki
ReplyDeleteAnon 7:54 u a fool, if u think u can mess up am Aboki like that go ahead. But just have @ the back of ur mind that all ur brothers and sisters in the north are all dead @ that instance. Bloody foolish igbos !
ReplyDeleteAnon 7:54 u a fool, if u think u can mess up am Aboki like that go ahead. But just have @ the back of ur mind that all ur brothers and sisters in the north are all dead @ that instance. Bloody foolish igbos !
ReplyDeleteDis mala 4get say him collect planty people land 4 abj, hmmmmm u get luck aboki say sss keep u save,if we catch uuuuu
ReplyDeleteEven Governor Obi's movement was restricted. What was rufai doing in anambra state? He should have been made to visit kirikiri. These are the people causing confusion in this country to make others look bad
ReplyDeletewhy ist so,poor nig figthing each others,pls iam aboki too.dig oilwell owners and know what ur country is All about.coz slaugthering All igbos in the north if anything happens to el-Rufia or planin me and u on how to get back our oilwell ok
ReplyDeleteWhy are U̶̲̥̅̊ guys so tribalistic like dis,wats wrong with El rufai visit to Anambra,is Anambra not part of Nigeria again or is El rufai not a Nigerian.U̶̲̥̅̊ guys shld be very careful with ur utterances .absolute power corrupt absolutely instead for all of us to condemn d action of SSS we are celebrating it becos of d person involved.Rmb they will also do this to ur broda somewia someday.how can SSS say they are protecting el rufai without his consent.
ReplyDeleteYou would have told us dat El-rufai came 2 Anambara, make people he sent village come kidnap him until he pays the last kobo. He is having his own security bcos militant haven't seen. Bcos if they do........
ReplyDeleteSome of you guys are saying rubbish. Anambra people are good people; Peace loving and God fearing set of people; they are predominantly catholic and protestant Christians; they are not cannibals besides; they are not hostile to the visitors.
ReplyDeleteI am not Anambrarian but I have visited almost all the LG areas including Nnewi, Iyeala, Idiato, Nnewi, Ikologu, Ekulobia, Onitsha etc. I never experienced hostility amongst them also, El-Rufai understands everything before going there therefore, a reasonable person against the above senseless goats will not say “he was prevented for his own security sake” after all he confirmed of having his own security.
No iota of doubt the election was officially rigged as usual very unfortunate, a man I used to have unended respect for; Peter Obi rubbishes himself and his entire generation with this.
President Goodluck Jonathan is trying his best however, people like Peter Obi etc will never allow the man to get ideal recognitions considering ghoulish acts like this.
We are waiting to see how it ends.
Na person wey no get work go leave his own town and go another state bcs election.....if they kill him there whos fault .....cow
ReplyDeleteThis happened in the state of the self-same governor Obi who was shouting to death the Gov Fashola 'deported' Ibo people from Lagos!!! What is the difference between this and the one he alleged of Fashola. I saw and recorded him on Channels TV today and can only say his utterances were nothing but a complete and total show of gross, base level shame.
ReplyDeleteObi totally destroyed whatever case, if any, can be purported against Fashola. El-Rufai's treatment in Awka confirms my view that the case Obi tried to make against Fashola was nothing but politics to smear Ngige, tarnish his image as an Ibo who sold out to a non-ibo party that 'maltreats' ibo people. This new show was borne out of total desperate. if there was in atom of respect left in me for Obi, he has by his own action sucked it out.
What a tragedy.
Igbos are not accommodating at all. Bloody Cannibals
ReplyDeleteOnly God/Allah will judge all our hearts, intentions,and actions. Every patriotic citizen prays 4 d leaders and wishes them well. how can u be a good leader without being a good follower? where are d positive minded people in this great country? Nawao! may God save us.
ReplyDeleteWetin concern you for Anambra election? Idleness is a disease.
ReplyDeletekai fuck u all
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