ADC accuses ICPC of blocking access to detained El-Rufai

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has accused the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) of preventing its leaders from seeing erstwhile Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, who is presently being held by the committee successful Abuja.

According to a connection released on Friday by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, a delegation led by the ADC National Secretary, Rauf Aregbesola, and ADC Policy Committee Secretary, Salihu Lukman, visited the ICPC office but “were denied entree without immoderate tenable explanation.”

The enactment besides claimed that information astir the committee became tense during the sojourn aft “no less than 3 truckloads of equipped constabulary officers arrived astatine the facility.”

The ADC described the deployment arsenic wholly unnecessary and said it gave the content that authorities feared nationalist absorption implicit the detention of the erstwhile governor.

The connection added that the enactment had earlier written to ICPC Chairman, Musa Adamu Aliyu, requesting support to sojourn El-Rufai pursuing concerns raised by his family.

The enactment said El-Rufai’s wife, Asia El-Rufai, had earlier alleged that her hubby was denied entree to his doc and that she was prevented from bringing nutrient to him portion successful custody.

The ADC, however, noted that the ICPC had denied the allegations and maintained tha...