Nasir El-Rufai threatened to arrest Peter Obi in Kaduna [Video]

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Controversy seems to trail the life of Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai. If he is not doing something controversial, he is making a controversial statement. Recently, he was captured in a trending video saying that he would have retaliated against what the former Anambra State governor, Mr. Peter Obi, did to him when he visited the state to monitor an election.

The trending video reveals El-Rufai addressing the Arewa joint committee in Kaduna State, where he alleged that Peter Obi, the current presidential candidate of the Labour Party, put him under house arrest for 48 hours in Anambra state during the election.

He said I would have also arrested the former governor, who would be in the state for his 2023 presidential campaign in the next few days, stressing that he has the First Mechanized Division of the Army in Kaduna that could carry out the arrest.

However, the All Progressive Congress, APC governor said he would not arrest Obi because Northerners are civilized people.

He said, “Before I finish, I want to say that I went to Anambra state for my party to monitor the election; Peter Obi, who was a Governor, put me under house arrest for 48 hours.

“Today, I am the Governor of Kaduna state, and he’s coming to Kaduna to campaign, and apart from other security agencies, I have the First Mechanized Division of the Army in Kaduna, but I will not arrest him because we Northerners are civilized people.”

Mallam @elrufai don scatter ground… in 2013, I went to Anambra to witness the bye election , your next guest Pitobi got me arrested and detained. Now I am the governor of Kaduna State….but we are civilized, we don’t do things that way. pic.twitter.com/6Mdby48R5e

— The Godfather JP (@AyoOyalowo) October 17, 2022

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