{"id":96236,"date":"2026-02-13T08:14:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/?p=96236"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:14:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:14:51","slug":"security-agents-attempt-to-arrest-el-rufai-at-abuja-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/?p=96236","title":{"rendered":"Security Agents Attempt to Arrest El-Rufai at Abuja Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Security operatives on Thursday allegedly attempted to arrest former Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, upon his arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, his media adviser, Muyiwa Adekeye, has claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement released shortly after the incident, Adekeye said the former governor had just returned from Cairo when security agents approached him at the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the statement, El-Rufai declined to accompany the operatives, insisting on a formal written invitation or warrant. Adekeye further alleged that the agents subsequently seized the former governor\u2019s international passport from one of his aides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSecurity agents today attempted to arrest Malam Nasir El-Rufai as he arrived on a flight from Cairo,\u201d the statement read. \u201cMalam El-Rufai declined to follow them without a formal invitation. They, however, seized his passport from an aide.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of the time of filing this report, there has been no official statement from the security agencies regarding the alleged incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security operatives on Thursday allegedly attempted to arrest former Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, upon his arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, his media adviser, Muyiwa Adekeye, has claimed. In a statement released shortly after the incident, Adekeye said the former governor had just returned from Cairo when security agents approached him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[278],"class_list":["post-96236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-malam-nasir-el-rufai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96238,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96236\/revisions\/96238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokocurrent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}