Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, has narrated how the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi, arrested and detained him for 48 hours in Anambra state when he (Obi) was governor in 2013.
El-Rufai explained that he (El-Rufai) visited Anambra to monitor the state’s governorship bye-election when Obi was seeking a second term in office on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) when the incident happened.1
The governor stated this on Monday during an interactive session of Arewa Joint Committee in Kaduna State.
He said, “In 2013, I went to Anambra State as an official of the APC to witness the bye-election for governorship.
“Your next guest, Peter Obi, as governor, got me arrested and detained for 48 hours in my hotel room.
“Now I’m the Governor of Kaduna State and he’s coming to Kaduna.
“In addition to the police and the State Secret Service, I have one Mechanised 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.
“I wish you all safe journey back to your destinations,” he said.
El-Rufai said he had all the security architecture at his disposal now that the Labour Party candidate was coming into his domain.