Claim by Nasir El-Rufai that his circle of opposition were monitoring phone conversation of the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has drawn reaction from the presidency.
The former Kaduna State governor in an interview with Arise TV had accused the NSA of pulling the strings of the attempt to arrest him at Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport on his return to Nigeria from Egypt.
In support of his claim the former FCT minister said they got to know of Ribadu’s involvement because he heard the NSA, in an intercepted telephone conversation, directing security operatives to detain him.
“The NSA’s call was tapped. They do that to our calls too, and we heard him saying they should arrest me,” El-Rufai said.
The proclamation has drawn reaction from the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi.
Ajayi in a post on his Facebook handle opined that El-Rufai was asking for trouble and if the consequence followed he would turn around to blame it on President Bola Tinubu.
“El-Rufai admitted on a national television that someone tapped the phone of the NSA for him to listen to his conversation. 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,” Ajayi wrote.
