Timi Frank claims Nigerian security agencies plan to alter El‑Rufai’s detention recordings.

The former deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has claimed that Nigerian security agencies are planning to manipulate audio and visual recordings related to former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El‑Rufai.

In a statement released on Friday, Frank said that El‑Rufai has been under “intense surveillance” while in custody and that conversations between the former governor, his lawyers, and family members were being secretly recorded.

He alleged that the recordings were being altered with artificial intelligence to incriminate the former governor.

“Nasir El‑Rufai has been subjected to intense surveillance even in detention,” Frank said. “The ICPC, where he is being held, has collaborated with the DSS to bug his room. They have countless hours of voice and visual recordings of his conversations, including those with his lawyers and family members,” he added.

Frank further claimed that operatives were reviewing the recordings “to select those that can best be doctored.” “The plan is to use AI to distort some of these recordings to frame El‑Rufai. Their plan is to then leak some of these doctored recordings to the press,” he alleged.

He said the plot is intended to damage El‑Rufai’s reputation and prolong his detention. “It is all a part of the agenda to destroy El‑Rufai, tarnish his reputation and keep him in custody,” Frank stated.

DAILY POST reports that El‑Rufai has been in detention on separate charges brought by the ICPC and the DSS, despite being granted bail. He has been arraigned in separate courts on alleged national security breaches and corruption by the ICPC and EFCC, but was granted bail.