You locked me up for 48 hours when you were Anambra governor – El-Rufai reminds Peter Obi

The governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, on Wednesday stated how a former governor of Anambra State and now the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, ordered the operatives of the State Security Services, SSS, keep him in a hotel for 48 hours.

El-Rufai stated that the incident happened in 2013 when he traveled to the state as an observer of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to witness the by-election of the Anambra State governorship election.

he made the claims addressing the Joint Area Committee in Kaduna on Monday alongside the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu.

El-Rufai said he had all the security apparatus at his disposal as the current governor of Kaduna state to reciprocate the ill-treatment meted out on him, he will not repay evil with evil.

“In 2013 I went to Anambra State as an official of the APC to witness the governorship by-election. Your next guest, Peter Obi, was a governor. He got me detained for 48 hours in my hotel room.

“Now I’m the governor of Kaduna State. And he is coming to Kaduna, in addition to the police and SSS, I have one mechanized Division of the Nigerian Army here if I need to arrest and detain anyone. But we are northerners, we are civilized, we don’t do things like that” he said.

GOGAN TV