UPDATE: El-Rufai Regains Freedom from SSS after 15 Hours



After 15 long hours of interrogation, the Department of State Security
Services has released ex-Minister of the Federal Capital Territory,
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, from its custody in Abuja.


“Mallam El-Rufai will not be silenced. He will continue to do his
patriotic duty of challenging INEC and the security agencies to
guarantee the climate for free and fair elections in Nigeria by
desisting from partisanship and the embrace of impunity.”

The former minister’s media advisor, Muyiwa Adekeye, said. Mallam
El-Rufai, who voluntarily made himself available at the SSS
headquarters around on Monday, was released after midnight.


“Mallam Nasir El-Rufai left the SSS premises at 12.35a.m today after
more than 15 hours,” his aid tweeted at 12.40 on Tuesday morning.


El-Rufai has however vowed that no amount of intimidation can stop
him from telling Nigerians the truth.