The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday replayed an interview granted by former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, as human rights lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, testified in the alleged phone tapping case instituted against the former governor by the State Security Service.
Adeyanju testified as the second prosecution witness before Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, telling the court that the recording accurately reflected what he witnessed during the February 13 Arise Television programme in which El-Rufai made claims about the alleged interception of a telephone conversation involving the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu.
In his testimony, Adeyanju recalled that reports had emerged on February 12 that El-Rufai was either going to be arrested or invited by security agencies following his return from Cairo, Egypt.
He said he had publicly urged the former governor to honour any invitation from security agencies and insisted that the matter was not politically motivated.
He told the
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