El-Rufai Released from SSS Detention

The Department of State Security Service (SSS), has finally been released the former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nasir el-Rufai after over 15 hours of interrogation at its headquarters in Abuja.
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai left the SSS premises at 12.35a.m today after more than 15 hours,” the former minister’s media advisor, Muyiwa Adekeye, tweeted at 12.40 this morning.

While in custody, el-Rufai was said to have rejected the food offered by the DSS on the grounds that he has an ulcer and only eats food prepared from home.
El-Rufai, who is the interim Deputy Publicity Secretary of the opposition All Progressives Congress, had reported at their office at about 9.20am in respect of the invitation he received for making “an inciting statement after initially declining to honour the invitation, saying he had instituted a suit against  the service for detaining him during the governorship election in Anambra State.
He asked the agency to either meet him in his office or produce a Warrant of Arrest.
Speaking to journalists moments before he entered the SSS office on Monday, El-Rufai had explained that he did not honour the invitation earlier as there was no warrant, adding that the SSS had no power to compel him to come to its office because of the statement he made.
He said, “The SSS has provided the Warrant of Arrest and shown it to my lawyer on Friday and I said to my lawyer that we will come here this morning (Monday).
“It is all about politics, it is all about 2015, this is just an attempt to intimidate and silence opposition for crying out that elections are likely to be rigged; I will continue to speak and they will continue to arrest me until we get free and fair election in Nigeria.”
He said that he had the right under the country’s constitution to make the statement for which he was invited.
“There is nothing I have said that history has not shown. I said elections should be free and fair; if they are not free and fair, there is likelihood of violence. This has happened in our history in 1964, 1983, 1993 and 2011, so what is strange about that. Anybody that doesn’t know that is either not reading history or just ignoring history,’’ the APC chieftain insisted.




























 REF: http://abusidiqu.com/sss-still-holding-el-rufai-at-its-headquarters/