Finally, Peter Obi Reacts To His Alleged Arrest Of El-Rufai | READ DETAILS

Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party presidential Candidate has described as false the allegation that he arrested and detained Nasir El-Rufai when he was the governor of Anambra state.

Recall that the Kaduna state governor, El-Rufai, had on Monday, October 17, 2022 alleged that Peter Obi detained him in his hotel room for 48 hours when he went to Anambra to monitor the 2013 governorship election in the state.

El-Rufai while speaking at an event organised for presidential candidates by the Arewa joint committee, said now that he is the governor of Kaduna and Obi was visiting the state, he could arrest Obi in revenge but would not do so because “we are northerners; we are civilized; we don’t do things like that”.

Responding to the allegation at an event on Tuesday, Peter Obi said;

“When I came in now, somebody told me that my brother, the governor of Kaduna state, said that he came to my state and I detained him. Let me tell you, it is good when these things happen, you clarify them”.

“Number one, in my eight years of being governor, only in the first three months did I have a commissioner that is not from the north — commissioner of police. And that’s because I met the person.

“At the time the governor said this, it was during election. The police commissioner that was there then was from Adamawa — CP Gwari from Adamawa. The AIG that supervised that election was CP Nasarawa from the north. The DIG that came for that election was from Kano.

“Tell me my power, that I was in APGA — government was PDP and APC. Tell me how APGA person will issue order for somebody to be detained. Even me was detained in my local government.

“However, the only offence I committed is that when they asked me, I said ‘that’s how they treat everybody; that I wouldn’t be in Kaduna on the day of election’. That was the only thing.

“There is no way. I cannot do that. As governor of Anambra state, I had the best ADC in Nigeria — the best policeman. My ADC, Mohammed, is from Kano. He’s the best policeman that I have ever met. Who will I give the order? How will I tell who lives in my house every day; I’m close to his family; I get up and say ‘Mohammed, I want to deal with your people’, and he will stay there.

“Call my ADC today. I will give you his phone number. He’s the best policeman. He’s a CSP now. So, when people say Peter Obi is black. 2019, I was [vice-presidential candidate], I was a good man. Now that I want to be president, I’ve become a bad man. I did not do anything wrong. I want to change Nigeria.”

Meanwhile, a video dated 2013 has surfaced online where El-Rufai had accused operatives of SSS of arresting him after an order came from Abuja.