The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused President Bola Tinubu of playing games with the law regarding the detention of former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai.
PrimeTimes Nigeria reports that the National Publicity Secretary of the ADC, Bolaji Abdullahi, made the allegation during an interview on Symfoni TV on Thursday.
Abdullahi emphasised that the legal actions against El-Rufai were politically motivated and aimed at keeping him out of circulation ahead of the 2027 general elections.
The ADC spokesman further described El-Rufai as a political prisoner of President Tinubu.
He said, “What they are doing by taking him to court, then shifting the date of hearing of the bail application, then moving him to another court and fixing another long duration to hear his bail application.
“He’s effectively playing games with the law to keep him in detention and out of circulation ahead of the next election. So, we in ADC are saying that Mallam Nasir El-Rufai is Tinubu’s political prisoner.
“And we are right. Last week, we were having this conversation within the party leadership, and we’re going to begin to deal with this appropriately because our thought was that the rule of law would prevail and he would be released,” he stated.
“We were in court. I was in court twice on the days he was arraigned and when he was released briefly for the burial of his late mother. May God rest us all. We were all there before they picked him up again.
“But we are going to escalate it regionally. We’re going to escalate it internationally. We’ve been doing this and will continue to do this.”