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Buhari Demands el-Rufai’s Release
By Ayokunle Oloye Newsdiaryonline Sat June
2,2011
The Presidential Candidate of the Congress for Progressive
Change(CPC) and former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari,
has demanded the immediate release of former FCT minister,
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai who was detained by the State Security
Service(SSS) Saturday morning.
El-Rufai was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International
Airport upon his arrival from London without being told of the
reasons for his arrest and whisked to the SSS Headquarters.
Gen Buhari in statement signed by Yinka Odunmakin,his spokesman
in Lagos condemns this brazen act of intimidation, harassment
and flagrant violation of citizens right in a democratic
setting. "It only shows that there are more people in our
country who know how to win by hook and crook than those who
know how to make proper use of their 'victory'”, he said.
He added that hounding innocent citizens to detention in less
than a month in office while failing to rise to the security
challenges facing the nation shows a regime that does not
understand what its priorities should be.
He therefore calls for the immediate release of El- Rufai from
unjust incarceration by the SSS who can then proceed to prefer
whatever charges they have against him in court if he has
committed any offence known to the laws of the land. "But to
keep him in gaol without any charges will only cast the
administration in the mould of a vindictive regime that is
launching a wave of political repression because it is jittery”,
he concluded.
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