El-Rufai Admitted Wire-tapping NSA Phone During TV Interview, Witness Tells Court
Alex Enumah in Abuja
A witness of the Department of State Services (DSS) in the trial of former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, on the alleged wiretapping of the telephone lines of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has admitted that El-Rufai confirmed the wiretapping remarks during a television interview.
According to the witness, he had appeared on an interview programme on Arise Television on February 16, 2026, the same day El-Rufai made the confession on the same television.
Deji Adeyanju, who testified as the second Prosecution Witness (PW2) on Monday, told Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of a Federal High Court that the former governor admitted during the television interview that “we listened to the conversations of the NSA”.
