El-Rufai serves ICPC pre-action notice, alleges forgery, abuse of office

Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, has formally served the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, with a pre-action announcement of ineligible proceedings.

In the letter, helium accused the anti-graft bureau of contempt of court, malicious prosecution, defamation, maltreatment of office, forgery, uttering a mendacious document, unlawful detention, and usurpation of cardinal rights.

The notice, dated March 4, 2026, was delivered to ICPC office successful Abuja by El-Rufai’s ineligible team.

It is successful effect to a property connection issued by ICPC connected March 2, 2026, which El-Rufai’s lawyers picture arsenic “reckless, defamatory, and legally untenable.”

The erstwhile politician and his ineligible squad person accused ICPC of engaging successful a media proceedings alternatively of pursuing due ineligible procedures.

ICPC accused of descending into “infamy”: The ineligible announcement opens with a scathing appraisal of ICPC, describing the agency’s caller actions arsenic a “circus of chicanery, theatrical posturing, and media trial.” The connection warns that the missive is not...