Alleged defamation: El-Rufai’s wife files N2bn suit against ICPC

Aichatou El-Rufai, the woman of erstwhile Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, has issued a pre-action announcement to the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, implicit the continued detention of her husband.

In the notice, she is asking for N2 cardinal successful damages implicit claims that the committee made mendacious and harmful statements astir her.

The petition was included successful a missive submitted by her lawyers aft an ICPC property connection called “Clarification connected the Access Control Protocol astatine ICPC Headquarters, Abuja” was published connected May 18, 2026.

As per the notice, Mrs El-Rufai’s lawyers said that galore parts of the statement, which was presented by ICPC spokesperson Okor Odey, were not accurate.

She claimed that Odey made mendacious statements that earnestly damaged her reputation.

The ineligible squad intelligibly disagreed with the commission’s mode of describing Mrs El-Rufai arsenic “a pistillate who identified herself arsenic the woman of a defendant.”

They argued that this wording questioned her presumption arsenic the ineligible woman of the erstwhile governor. 

They also argued that the commission’s connection calling her earlier claims “false and misleading” made her look dishonest and misleading, which harmed her estimation with the public. 

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