El-Rufai attempted arrest: Tinubu govt enforcing troubling pattern against opposition – ADC

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has accused the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government of enforcing a ‘selective troubling pattern’ against the opposition.

ADC’s spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, made the assertion while condemning the attempted arrest of former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, at the Abuja International Airport on his return to Nigeria from Cairo, Egypt.

Security operatives had attempted to arrest El-Rufai at the airport without giving any reason. While the ADC coalition chieftain prevented the security operatives from arrested him, they were able to seize his international passport.

Abdullahi said the attempted arrest has raised serious constitutional and democratic concerns.

Posting on X, he wrote: “The ADC strongly condemns the attempt by security operatives to arrest the former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir @elrufai, at the airport under circumstances that raise serious constitutional and democratic concerns.

“What Nigerians are witnessing is increasingly difficult to separate from a broader and troubling pattern of pressure and selective enforcement directed at opposition voices under the watch of the APC-led administration of President Bola Tinubu.”