El-Rufai accused Obi, who was seeking a second term in office then on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), of giving the DSS an order to detain him for 48 hours.
By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
“While as governor of Anambra State, the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, ordered operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) to detain me,” says Kaduna Governor, Nasir El-Rufai.
El-Rufai made the remark at an event that the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu was billed to address. The event was organized by the Arewa Joint Committee to interact with all the presidential candidates for the 2023 election.
Obi is also expected to address the gathering, made up of northern leaders who want to know what plans he has for the region.
El-Rufai, while giving a remark at the opening of the event, told the gathering that on November 16, 2013, he travelled on behalf of his party to Anambra to monitor the governorship contest. But officials of the DSS, on the orders of Obi, detained him in Fontel Hotel, Awka where he lodged.
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El-Rufai accused Obi, who was seeking a second term in office then on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), of giving the order. Obi’s main challenger in the election was the APC’s Chris Ngige.
Obi is now in Kaduna as the Labour Party presidential candidate to attend the Arewa Joint Committee meeting. El-Rufai said he too could as well use security operatives in the state, including the 1 Mechanized Division of the Nigerian Army which is at his disposal, to detain Obi. But he wouldn’t do that because, according to him, “we are northerners. We are civilised.”
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