The governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, on Wednesday revealed 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, to lock him up in a hotel for 48 hours.
Mr El-Rufai said 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.
Mr El Rufai made the disclosure when he addressed the Joint Area Committee in Kaduna on Monday alongside the presidential candidate of the APC, Bola Tinubu.
DAILY NIGERIAN reports that Messrs Tinubu and Obi addressed the northern leaders about their plans and agenda for the region.
Although Mr 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 won’t 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 me 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.”
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