El-Rufai reacts as video ‘vindicates’ Peter Obi of alleged Anambra house arrest

By Adeleye Kunle

Following an outburst by the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai alleging that the Labour Party presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi ordered his arrest in 2013, more facts have emerged.

Track News recalls that El-Rufai had on Monday while addressing the Arewa Joint Committee organised for presidential candidates, said he would have arrested Peter Obi in Kaduna State as allegedly done to him in Anambra State.

He said, “I want to say that I went to Anambra state for my party to monitor election, Peter Obi who was a Governor put me under house arrest for 48 hours.

“Today, I am the Governor of Kaduna state and he’s coming to Kaduna to campaign and apart from other security agencies, I have the First Mechanized Division of the Army in Kaduna but I will not arrest him because we Northerners are civilized people.”

Track News reports that the governor had gone to Anambra State in 2013 to lend support for Chris Ngige, the current Minister of Labour, who ran against Peter Obi on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, during governorship election.

A tweep, Adetutu Balogun, however, tweeted an old video which captured El-Rufai blaming authorities from Abuja for being responsible for his alleged house arrest