The Presidential candidate of Labour Party Peter Obi has denied claims that he ordered the arrest and detention of Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai when he was governor of Anambra State in 2013.
El-Rufai had claimed that Obi arrested him in Anambra state when he (Obi) was governor in 2013.
The Governor, who made this disclosure at an interactive session of Arewa Joint Committee in Kaduna on Monday, stated that Obi arrested and detained him for 48 hours.
The former FCT Minister added that he had all the security architecture at his disposal now that the Labour Party candidate was coming into his domain.
In his reaction, Peter Obi said, “There’s no way, I can not do that. I never ordered any AIG to arrest or detain anybody. I had the best ADC, the best policeman in Nigeria. He is from Kano.
“The police commissioner that was there then was from Adamawa. The AIG in that election was from Nasarawa, strictly Nasarawa from the North. Tell me how I will use my power to issue order for somebody to be detained.
“There is no way I can do that, I didn’t ask anyone to do that, as Governor of Anambra State,” he said.
