ADC Claims El‑Rufai Is a Political Prisoner of Tinubu

The National Publicity Secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Bolaji Abdullahi, has called former Kaduna State governor Nasir El‑Rufai a “political prisoner” of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Abdullahi made the statement during an interview on Symfoni TV on Thursday.

According to the ADC spokesperson, the legal actions taken against Mallam Nasir El‑Rufai are politically motivated and designed to keep him out of the public eye ahead of the 2027 general elections.

“Today, regardless of whatever charges they have against Mallam Nasir El‑Rufai, he is a political prisoner of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu because there are no charges that have been brought against him that are not bailable,” Abdullahi said. “What they are doing by taking him to court, then shifting the date of hearing of the bail application, then moving him to another court and fixing another long duration to hear his bail application, is effectively playing games with the law to keep him in detention and out of circulation ahead of the next election. So, we in ADC are saying that Mallam Nasir El‑Rufai is Tinubu’s political prisoner.”

“And we are right. Last week, we were having this conversation within the party leadership, and we’re going to begin to deal with this appropriately because our thought was that the rule of law would prevail and he would be released,” he added.

“We were in court. I was in court twice on the days he was arraigned and when he was released briefly for the burial of his late mother. May God rest us all. We were all there before they picked him up again.”

“But we are going to elevate it regionally. We’re going to elevate it internationally. We’ve been doing this and will continue to do this,” Abdullahi concluded.