Peter Obi denies El-Rufai’s claims of arresting him

Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra state and current Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, has denied directing security agents to detain Governor Nasir El-Rufai during the 2013 Anambra governorship race.

Obi stated that he was also detained by his local government, hence he was not behind the request to detain El-Rufai.Information Guide Nigeria

Monday in Kaduna, the Arewa Joint Committee hosted an event for presidential contenders where El-Rufai made this assertion.

El-Rufai explained that he was in Anambra State as a representative of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to observe the 2013 governor’s race.

The governor said that Obi, the then-governor of Anambra State, ordered security personnel to lock him in his hotel room.

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Reacting, Obi said:

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“When I came in now, somebody told me that my brother, the governor of Kaduna State, said that he came to my State and I detained him. Let me tell you, it is good when these things happen, you clarify them.

“Number one, in my eight years of being governor, only in the first three months did I have a commissioner that is not from the north — commissioner of police. And that’s because I met the person.

“At the time the governor said this, it was during the election. The police commissioner that was there then was from Adamawa — CP Gwari from Adamawa. The AIG that supervised that election was CP Nasarawa from the north. The DIG that came for that election was from Kano.Jamb Result

“Tell me my power that I was in APGA — government was PDP and APC. Tell me how an APGA person will issue an order for somebody to be detained. Even me was detained in my local government.Jamb Result

“However, the only offence I committed is that when they asked me, I said ‘that’s how they treat everybody; that I wouldn’t be in Kaduna on the day of election’. That was the only thing.”

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