The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the claims by Rotimi Amaechi, Atiku Abubakar and Nasir el-Rufai, that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration was weaponising poverty as “baseless” and “hypocritical.” The party said the criticisms were borne out of desperation for power and personal gain. In a statement issued on Monday and signed by Felix…
Kaduna High Court has slammed a N900m damages cost on the former governor of Kaduna state, Nasir El-Rufai for illegally arresting and detaining elders of Adara community in 2019. Justice Hauwau Buhari gave the judgment in a case of fundamental human rights suit filed by Adara community elders. The court held that El-Rufai was guilty…
Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has accused the Nigerian judiciary of being plagued by corruption, citing widespread dishonesty among judges and lawyers. Speaking on Monday during the Law Week of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Bwari Branch, in Abuja, El-Rufai voiced concerns about public distrust in the judicial system due to delayed justice and…
Buba Galadima, chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and an ally of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has said the former Kaduna Governor Nasir El-rufai cannot lead the opposition against President Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election. He asserted that for the law of retributive justice “El-rufai cannot lead an opposition. It…
Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN, on Monday, paid a courtesy visit to former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, in what he described as a discussion focused on the unity, peace, and progress of Nigeria. Malami shared details of the visit via social media, calling El-Rufai “a patriotic…
A chieftains of the Social Democratic Party, SDP and former governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai was spotted attending a funeral mass inside a church in Okija, Anambra state thus stroking avalanche of reactions on the internet. Indeed, it has sparked reactions of the reasons behind attending a church and sharing of the pictures….
Former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, on Friday met with the National Leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, in Abuja, amid growing speculation over Kwankwaso’s possible defection to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The two political figures were sighted together after Jumaat prayers at a mosque in…
Adebayo Adewole Adebayo, the 2023 presidential candidate for the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has said that the party leadership would not sit back and allow Nasir El-Rufai and other new decampees to hijack the party. Adebayo said that El-Rufai and other members of the opposition parties who joined the SDP might have defected to use…
A student group affiliated with prominent Islamic scholar, Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi, has urged President Bola Tinubu to investigate former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai over a controversial midnight raid that led to the removal of 160 Qur’anic students from the Sheikh’s residence. The Markaz Old Boys Association (MOBA), in a statement signed by its…
A group, Democracy Watch Initiative (DWI), has reminded former vice president, Atiku Abubakar and former Kaduna state governor Nasir El-rufai that they should not take Nigerians for granted as their antecedents while in office have not been forgotten. A statement on Sunday by the group’s director of strategic communications Dr AbdulRazak Ahmed, said, “That Atiku…
