Former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has denied involvement in the abduction of a Nigerian social media critic, Abubakar Idris, popularly known as Dadiyata.
Naijaonpoint recalls that Dadiyata was whisked away by gunmen from his home in Barnawa, Kaduna State, on August 1, 2019.
Speaking during an interview on ARISE Television’s ‘Prime Time’ programme on Friday, El-Rufai clarified that Dadiyata was not a critic of Kaduna State but of Kano State.
According to El-Rufai, the former Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, was Dadiyata’s problem, stressing that he only got a report of the social media critic’s existence after his family reported to the police that he was abducted.
El-Rufai stressed that three days after Dadiyata’s abduction, a policeman posted from Kano to Ekiti confessed to someone that they were sent from Kano to kidnap him.
He said, “Dadiyata is a critic of the Kano government. He was a fierce critic of the Kano state government. He’s from Kano. He lives in Kaduna and lectures at a university in Katsina State.
“It was Ganduje that was his problem. I don’t even know him. We only got a report of Dadiyata’s existence after his family reported to the police that he was abducted. That is the only thing I know, but it was not a problem for Kaduna State.”