Tuesday, April 7, 2026 - A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Kenneth Okonkwo, has alleged that the incarceration of former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai was responsible for his mother’s death.
Recall that the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission,
ICPC, had detained El-Rufai for corruption while he was in office.
He was subsequently arraigned b fore a Kaduna State High
Court and later granted bail.
While in detention, El-Rufai lost his mother and he was
granted administrative bail to attend her burial.
Reacting, Okonkwo said the All Progressives Congress, APC,
is trying to use the judiciary.
In an interview with Symponi TV, Okonkwo said: “APC wants to
use the lawyers and the judiciary; why am I saying that they want to use the
judiciary?
“I give you a good example of what happened in El-Rufai’s
case; as far as I’m concerned, it’s the incarceration of El-Rufai that killed
his mother.
“You know when mothers get to that age they are so
sentimental, they become so emotional.
“Let me tell you, somebody told my mother that thieves stole
from the houses of some of her children, she felt so bad that they had to call
preachers to come and start preaching to her that nothing is wrong.
“Then you can imagine an aged woman of 90 years and you are
telling her that they arrested her son, some people might tell her that her son
has died, that is what killed her in my own opinion.
“When the woman died that is when they remembered that they
would release El-Rufai without court order, meaning that they are the one using
the judiciary, because you can’t disobey the order of the court.”
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