The former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir el-Rufai has been released by The State Security Service in the early hours of Tuesday after about 15 hours of interrogation.
The former minister reported to the SSS Abuja office at about 9.30am on Monday and was released some minutes after midnight.
He was earlier summoned by the SSS for what the security agency described as provocative and inciting statements that “there would be violence if the 2015 elections are not free and fair.”
Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi, accompanied by Senator Chris Ngige had driven el-Rufai to the SSS office.
Amaechi said he was mandated by the leadership of the APC to accompany the ex-minister. Other party chieftains, including the APC national secretary, Mr. Tijani Tumsah, who also accompanied el-Rufai, were barred from entering the SSS premises.
One of the ex-minister’s wives and his lawyer were also part of the entourage that went with him to the Maitama office of the secret police.
Amaechi spent about one hour inside the SSS premises before he left. Ngige, who spent about four hours, left the SSS premises around 3pm. An attempt to speak with him by journalists was aborted by SSS operatives who asked everyone to leave the area.
The SSS had invited el-Rufai to its office last Friday over a statement in which he said there would be violence during the 2015 elections.
But the former minister declined to honour the invitation, saying he had instituted a suit against the service for detaining him during the governorship election in Anambra State. He asked the agency to either meet him in his office or produce a Warrant of Arrest.
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