African Democratic Congress. Photo: ADC
The African Democratic Congress has accused the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission of preventing its leaders from gaining access to former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, who is currently in the custody of the anti-graft agency.
The opposition party also alleged that the anti-graft agency deployed three truckloads of armed police officers at its Abuja headquarters on Friday to prevent senior members of the party from visiting the former governor.
In a statement issued on Friday by the ADC National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, the party said its National Secretary, Rauf Aregbesola, alongside Abdullahi and the secretary of the party’s Policy and Manifesto Committee, Salihu Lukman, visited the headquarters of the ICPC to see El-Rufai.
According to the statement, the party had communicated formally with the commission ahead of the visit but was denied access to the former governor “without any reasonable explanation.”
