Abubakr Sadeeq

KD Bonafide. Azharian; raised by Egyptians. B.Ed, M.Ed. C.E.O: AILC, AIA, Arewa Kids' Durbar, ⚖️LLB: Accidental Lawyer in the making. old handle @elsadeeq86

[Mal. Imran U. Wakili (PULLO) 👑 #iSTANDWITHELRUFAI @IU_Wakilii]

BREAKING: The Chief Judge of Kaduna State, Justice Muhammad Tukur Aliyu, has rejected a request by former Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, for the transfer of the ICPC case against him from Justice Darius Hyet Khobo to another judge of the Kaduna State High Court.

The decision followed petitions submitted by El-Rufai and his counsel, raising serious concerns about the impartiality of the trial judge and his conduct of the proceedings.

In his petition dated July 6, El-Rufai alleged that Justice Khobo had attended at least three interactions in Kaduna and Southern Kaduna between March and May 2026, where he allegedly made statements indicating that he would neither grant him bail nor ultimately acquit him.

El-Rufai said the alleged meetings took place under the guise of social or family events but involved political, religious and community leaders who, according to his petition, had longstanding political grievances against his administration.

The former governor further alleged that the judge had allowed himself to become an instrument of political retribution, describing the alleged conduct as fundamentally incompatible with the requirement for judicial impartiality.

El-Rufai said he was prepared to provide the identities of those allegedly present at the meetings and other information supporting his claims to the appropriate authorities in camera.

Despite the allegations, the Chief Judge constituted a three-member committee of reputable legal practitioners to investigate the petitions pursuant to Section 111(1)-(4) of the Kaduna State Administration of Criminal Justice Law, 2017.

The committee submitted its report on August 18, after which the Chief Judge informed Justice Khobo that it found no basis for transferring the case to another judge.

Justice Aliyu consequently directed Justice Khobo to continue with the hearing and determination of the matter in accordance with the law and fairness.

The development means that Justice Khobo will continue to preside over the ICPC case against El-Rufai, despite the former governor’s stated concerns about whether he can receive a fair hearing before the court.

El-Rufai had specifically stressed that his petition was not an attempt to seek bail or interfere with the merits of the case or his pending appeal, but a request aimed at ensuring that the matter was heard by a judge whose impartiality was beyond reasonable doubt.

[SIR1⭐️ @sa10nee]

Brazilian football legend Roberto Carlos reportedly opens up about his conversion to Islam, saying he has no regrets and claiming Cristiano Ronaldo congratulated him on the decision.

🗣️ Roberto Carlos: “I really don’t understand why people are angry about my decision. This is my choice, and people should respect my faith. I won’t deny that my wife influenced me to convert, but it’s no big deal because I have always loved Islam. Most of my relatives back in Brazil aren’t pleased with my decision, but I don’t care because it’s my life and my choice.

Cristiano Ronaldo even congratulated me and told me that whenever I come to Saudi Arabia, I should contact him because his home is always open to me and my wife. That’s the kind of gesture and love I wish I could receive from other people and relatives instead of all this backlash.”

[Channels Television @channelstv]

"APC was trounced in Osun; we didn’t even see a coalition, or collaboration, or a gang-up against APC, and yet APC was defeated... There is no reason this cannot repeat itself at the national level," says PRP National Chairman Hakeem Baba-Ahmed.

#PoliticsToday

[Parallel Facts @ParallelFacts]

BREAKING: US Justice Department Seeks New August 28 Deadline To Release Tinubu-Linked Drug Records, Citing ‘Highly Sensitive’ Information https://t.co/LOYBGciBBE

[Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C. @batten_von]

Update: We just received the attached new court records, which explain why the @FBI is asking @uscourts Judge Beryl Howell for permission to privately provide her with highly sensitive information concerning FBI files related to the DOJ heroin-trafficking allegations involving Nigerian President Bola Tinubu. It seems #Tinubu is afraid for his life.

The main FBI claim is that disclosure “could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual.” We can only surmise from this that Nigerian President Bola Tinubu (@officialABAT) is now telling the #FBI that his life would be in danger if the files are released.

Nigerians, this is the man asking you to re-elect him next year. More to come.

@JDVance @SecRubio @SusieWiles47 @HouseForeignGOP @HouseForeign @SFRCdems @StateDept @AsstSecStateAF @SenateForeign @SenTedCruz @RepBrianMast @SusieWiles @RepGregSteube @RepJames @Jim_Jordan @RepRaskin @FBIDirectorKash @ChuckGrassley @SenatorDurbin @HouseJudiciary @JudiciaryGOP @FoxNews @washingtonpost @joerogan @joeroganhq @seanhannity @IngrahamAngle @chicagotribune @AGToddRokita @GovBraun @tmhuston @INHouseGOP @indgop @SOSDiegoMorales @indystar @JudgeJeanine @GOP @Republicans

[Mal. Imran U. Wakili (PULLO) 👑 #iSTANDWITHELRUFAI @IU_Wakilii]

There is no point in lowering tuition fees if it means lowering the quality of education provided.

Quality education cannot be provided unless lecturers are adequately compensated.

God Bless Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.

[Sahara Reporters @SaharaReporters]

Senator Kingibe Lambasts Minister Wike: FCT Administration Worsening Abuja Floods By Building On Green Areas, Flood Channels | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/peqcDrwo9b

[Er Amanar Malam Nasiru El-rufai @hauwamahmad]

Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital has become a clear example of failing healthcare in Kaduna State.

Patients face broken equipment, long wait times, and a severe shortage of basic medical supplies every single day. The Kaduna State Government is simply not doing enough to fix these major issues.

When public hospitals lack proper funding and support, ordinary citizens are the ones who suffer the most. We need real government action and immediate funding to save our health system before it collapses completely. Our people deserve better than empty promises.

Barau dikko was one of the best government hospital in kaduna state but now I can’t say otherwise

[Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C. @batten_von]

We just received a copy of President Bola Tinubu’s (@officialABAT) filing from just two business days ago. Not surprisingly, President Tinubu has now formally joined @TheJusticeDept’s request for a 10-day extension, which the judge has now swiftly denied.

We surmise that President #Tinubu wants to use any delay to call upon his friends in DC to argue that the release of these files would harm U.S.-Nigeria relations and undermine his ability to work with the United States to combat terrorism and the killing of Christians in Northern Nigeria.

We believe that any U.S. government personnel who improperly attempt to interfere with the judicial or FOIA process on behalf of #Nigerian President #Tinubu to prevent the lawful release of these records should be exposed and fired.

President @realDonaldTrump and the United States do not protect individuals alleged by the DOJ to have been part of a criminal organization that smuggled heroin into the United States.

[El-Rufai Live @ElRufai_Live]

They Mistook a Difficult Chapter for the End of the Story

Those in power often look at temporary confinement and conclude that a man’s story has ended. They mistake silence for defeat and assume influence has been extinguished. History has never been kind to such assumptions.

Mallam Nasir @elrufai’s life cannot be reduced to the walls of a detention cell. Temporary setbacks have never been the final verdict on men of consequence. They have often been the refining fire.

To declare that he is finished is to confuse a difficult chapter with the closing of the book. Great lives are rarely smooth. They are shaped by resistance, betrayal, and seasons of testing.

Influence rooted in ideas, courage, and institutional memory does not evaporate simply because freedom is temporarily restricted.

They may celebrate. They may mock. They may convince themselves the chapter has closed.

History reads the same pages differently.

The Movement is Rising.

#FreeElRufai
#ElRufaiLive
#TheyMistookAChapterForTheEnd

[Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C. @batten_von]

This is Dr. Von Batten. Unlike President @JoeBiden's DOJ, which fought the release of FOIA records concerning drug-trafficking allegations involving Nigerian President Bola Tinubu (@officialABAT), the DOJ under President @realDonaldTrump will never protect an alleged drug trafficker linked to the smuggling of heroin from #Nigeria through Illinois to #Indiana.

Instead of protecting Americans, the #Biden DOJ chose to go after President Trump and, if not for the grace of God, might have succeeded in destroying him. They went after President Trump while fighting the release of records concerning Nigerian President Bola #Tinubu, a man accused in federal records of involvement in #heroin trafficking.

We thank God for President #Trump. We thank God for U.S. Attorney Jeanine #Pirro (@USAttyPirro) and all the people in the Trump Administration and Congress who are refusing to do what President #Biden's DOJ did, which was to protect an alleged drug trafficker.

@WhiteHouse @JDVance @SusieWiles47 @HouseForeignGOP @SenateForeign @HouseGOP @SenateGOP @Jim_Jordan @CNNAfrica @BBCAfrica @Reuters @GOP @Republicans

[Ibrahim Modibbo Sanusi Maikudi 🇵🇸 @ModibboSanusi]

A message from our Malam @elrufai to the Good people of Kaduna .
@HafsatMohBaba

[𝐸𝓃𝑔𝓇 кнαℓι∂ @KHALYD16]

Breaking: Over 200 lecturers reportedly quitting Kaduna State University KASU because of poor working conditions, yet Uba Sani is busy packaging propaganda as “development.” 😂 What exactly are you governing, Your Excellency? when the people teaching Kaduna’s children are fleeing your university, your government is failing where it matters most.

[Garba Shehu @GarShehu]

Where is Professor Amupitan?

I don't know him, and we never met.
I have no reason to wish to meet him, either. When they nominated him as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the nation received the shocking disclosure of his 2020 legal brief to the international community in which he claimed that the violence in the country was a Muslim pogrom against Christians.

The violence affected and still affects followers of all religions and speakers of every language.

For this reason, I, among many others, felt bad about the assertion he made and assumed that he was not a good choice for that office. This country's elections had incrementally got better with each new leadership.

Professor Jega gave the nation its best election since the disputed June 12, 1993, that produced Chief MKO Abiola, now recognised as a duly elected president who did not, however, take the office.

Professor Mahmud Yakubu did the impossible by rallying the civil society, CSOs, and local and foreign observers to approve all his elections.

Not one election under him was ever rejected by any serious observer or CSO.
Now, look at what has just happened in Osun state. Under Amupitan's leadership, the country has attained a transparent electoral process.

Everyone - civil society, the EU, local and foreign observers are commending this standout performance, praising the exceptional skill and determination to improve the process as manifested by INEC's seamless uploading of the governorship election results to its IReV.

With all the loud acclaim that followed, however, I have been asking myself, where is the captain of the ship, Professor Amupitan?

He hasn't picked the microphone, 48 hours hence, or appeared before the TV cameras to proudly show off the success. Where is he?

We are a country of wilful behaviour, chest beating public officials who are proudly and aggressively proclaiming success without achieving half of what we are talking about here. Where is he?

We are not used to seeing this kind of humility, patience, and restraint. Isn't it fair that the man should come out of his shell and dance to the drums in celebration?

[Assab Aichatou Djibril @AAD_EL_Rufai]

Today Exactly 183 Days @elrufai in Detention.

A Human Right, Not a Favor
A fair trial is not an act of mercy. It is not a privilege. It is a fundamental human right. @UNWatch @UN_HRC @UN @amnesty @amnestyusa @Mediapart @Trial @jeune_afrique @BBCWorld @SenateForeign @POTUS @EmmanuelMacron @10DowningStreet @UKParliament @ESPNUK @AJEnglish @jeune_afrique @FranceONUGeneve @France24_ar @EUCouncil @EuParlement @nytimes @VanguardAfrica @CNN

#FairTrial
#HumanRights
#JusticeForAll
#FreeElrufai183DaysDetention

[uche diala @uchediala]

#DaysCount

183 DAYS.
183 DAYS ..
183 DAYS ...
183 DAYS ....

183 DAYS & Counting .....

Of Unjust & Unjustifiable Incarceration.

#EnoughIsEnough
#NoRetreatNoSurrender
#EyesOnTheBall
#TheElrufaists
#ESG

[Parallel Facts @ParallelFacts]

Forger-in-Chief Tinubu Seeks 10-Day Extension Over Release of Fraudulent Files as US Judge Denies Request https://t.co/RbTCEzVpzX

[Sulaiman Uwaisu Idris @KafinHausaa]

Kaduna North politics is heating up as Hon. @B_ELRUFAI sends a cryptic message to his political opponents.

He says he doesn’t use public funds to distribute motorcycles or bags of rice for photo ops. Instead, he focuses on schools, hospitals and legacy projects that will continue to benefit the people even after he is gone.

He added that if others are engaging in “eye service” to impress Governor Uba Sani, he has already worked with the governor and never needed to make empty claims.

[Sahara Reporters @SaharaReporters]

WATCH: Sowore Blasts Davido, Adeleke: ‘Only A Brainless Person Would Endorse Tinubu, Osun Gov Has Nothing Upstairs’

More on SaharaTv: https://t.co/wNGFQQNgE3

[Parallel Facts @ParallelFacts]

US Firm Welcomes August 21 Deadline To Release Tinubu Narcotics Records, Says Trump Administration Won’t Protect Alleged Drug Trafficker https://t.co/7BIADZMe6I