APC plans to release El-Rufai after 2027 election - ADC

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, on Thursday alleged that the All Progressives Congress, APC, plans to release former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai after the 2027 elections. ADC's spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi said the APC knows that the opposition would be stronger if El-Rufai is released before the election. Featuring on Channels Television's Politics Today, Abdullahi insisted that the ADC is against making it difficult for El-Rufai to be granted bail. He said: "ADC is not opposed to anybody who has a legitimate case to answer from being prosecuted but when you are holding someone in custody for bailable offences and you proceed to arraign that person and make impossible conditions for bail to meet, it creates room for us to believe that you deliberate intend to hold this person in perpetuity. "What I can tell you is that the thinking within the ADC is that the APC government has concluded that they will not release Mallam Nasir El-Rufai until after the election. "That's what we believe, that's the plan, and that's what they plan to do. They know that with Mallam Nasir El-Rufai freed, the opposition is stronger and they know that if they release him, he would remind them of certain things that they would rather forget. "We in the opposition believe that they are doing everything to make sure that El-Rufai remains in custody until after the election."