The Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has said he would have retaliated against what the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, did to him in 2013 when he visited Anambra to monitor an election.
According to El-Rufai, he alleged that the former governor of Anambra State detained him for 48 hours in his hotel room in Anambra during the governorship by-election.
In a trending video, El-Rufai who was addressing Arewa joint committee in Kaduna State said he would have also arrested Obi who would be in the state to campaign for his 2023 presidential election in the next few days stressing that he had the First Mechanised Division of the Army in Kaduna that could carry out the arrest.
The All Progressive Congress, APC governor, however, said he would not arrest Obi because Northerners are civilised people.
He said, “In 2013 I went to Anambra State, as an official of the APC to witness the by-election for governorship; your next guest, Peter Obi was governor, he got me arrested and detained me for 48hours in my hotel room.”
“Now I’m the governor of Kaduna State and he’s coming to Kaduna to campaign; in addition to the police and the SSS I have the First Mechanized Division of the Nigerian Army here if I need to arrest and detain anyone but we are northerners, we are civilised; we don’t do things like that, I wish you all safe journey back to your destination and God bless you.”
sahara reporters
