El-Rufai in ICPC custody for 17 days – Aide gives update

A media adjutant to erstwhile Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, Muyiwa Adekeye, has said the person has remained successful the custody of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, for 17 days.

Adekeye disclosed this connected Thursday portion providing an update connected the detention of the erstwhile governor.

According to him, national authorities agencies person held El-Rufai since helium voluntarily reported to the bureau of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, connected February 16, 2026.

In a connection helium signed, Adekeye said El-Rufai was aboriginal transferred to the ICPC connected the nighttime of February 18 and has remained successful its custody since then.

Adekeye besides said the ICPC obtained a 14-day remand warrant connected February 19 to detain the erstwhile governor, which is expected to expire connected March 5.

The anti-graft bureau reportedly indicated that it plans to complaint him successful tribunal earlier oregon connected that date.

He said: “Meanwhile, the El-Rufai household has rejected claims by the ICPC that wiretapping instrumentality was recovered during a hunt of the erstwhile governor’s residence connected March 2. His lawyers described the allegation arsenic mendacious and said they w...