Nasir el-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna, says he accessed an intercepted phone conversation involving Nuhu Ribadu, national security adviser (NSA).
In an interview on Prime Time, an Arise Television
programme, el-Rufai said “someone tapped” Ribadu’s phone, allowing him to
listen to the NSA allegedly instructing security operatives to effect his
arrest.
He acknowledged the act’s illegality, adding that the
government does it all the time.
“He made the call because we listened to their calls. The
government thinks they are the only ones that listen to calls but we also have
our ways. He made the call and gave the order,” he said.
“Someone tapped his phone. The government listens to our
calls all the time without a court order. Someone tapped his phone and told us
that he gave the order.”
The comment has elicited a response from Temitope Ajayi,
senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity.
“El-rufai admitted on national television that someone
tapped the phone of the NSA for him to listen to his conversation,” the
president’s spokesperson wrote on X.
“When Charles Aniagolu, the interviewer, interjected that
that was an illegal action, el-Rufai agreed to the illegality.
“By the time he is picked up to produce the person who
illegally tapped the NSA’s phone, he would say President Tinubu is a ‘tyrant’
and persecuting him.”
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