@asr_rabiu Happy Birthday sir. May Allah bless the new age and grant you more fruitful years ahead. Thank you for the good work of helping the less privileged. Allah ya Kara lafiya da daukaka
@BUAgroup . This is a birthday message to the CEO, Alhaji Abdulsamad Isiyaka Rabiu as he turns 66. May Allah bless him, his businesses and his family. May he continue his good work of giving back to the society. Allah ya Kara lafiya da daukaka.
‘For 150 days, Nasir El-Rufai Has Been Detained. Nigeria’s Partners Must Speak Up’
By Asia Ahmad El-Rufai
I write today not as a politician, lawyer or diplomat, but as a wife, a mother and a Nigerian woman asking that the country my husband served for so many years remember its own conscience.
On the 150th day of Mallam Nasir El-Rufai’s detention, I ask readers outside Nigeria to pause over what that number means. One hundred and fifty days is not a legal phrase. It is five months of missed meals, missed prayers, missed proper mourning of his deceased mother, missed family conversations, interrupted medical care and moments we can never recover.
My husband is no stranger to controversy or public scrutiny. He has spent more than two decades in public life - as head of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, minister of the Federal Capital Territory and governor of Kaduna State. He has been praised, criticised, loved and opposed. That is democracy. But what is happening to him today is not democracy, and it is not accountability. It is punishment before trial.
Arrest Without Warning And Dignity
For 150 days, our home has existed under a cloud that does not lift. There was the attempted airport interception, when security officials seized his passport without a warrant and assaulted his aide in public view. There was the sudden invitation, his voluntary appearance before the authorities, and the promise of bail that existed on paper but not in freedom. There was the night he was moved between locations without warning and without the dignity of allowing his family to know where he was being taken.
I still remember the helplessness of hearing that he had fallen gravely ill in custody, bleeding from his nose and mouth, while those responsible for his welfare were reluctant to provide the care any person deserves. I remember the anxiety of trying to get his medication to him and wondering whether officials would accept it. These are not abstract violations.
They are the moments that chip away at a family’s resolve and hope. Behind every headline about “charges” and “investigations”, there is a family waiting, praying and trying not to imagine the worst.
Justice Cannot Be Selective
Let me be clear: I do not ask that my husband be placed above the law. No public official should be immune from scrutiny. If the state believes it has evidence, let it be presented before an impartial court, openly and fairly. But justice cannot be selective. It cannot be pursued through overlapping charges, repeated detention, impossible bail conditions, and public humiliation designed to persuade the nation of guilt before a judge has heard the case.
Recent public commentary has warned that Nigeria (among other African countries) is drifting from accountability into lawfare - the use of legal processes, judicial procedures and state institutions as political weapons. The concern is not whether former officials may be investigated; they can and should be. The concern is whether the law is being applied neutrally or deployed against those who have fallen out of political favour.
My husband’s case has become a test of that distinction. His political rupture with President Bola Tinubu’s ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and his refusal to surrender his independent voice should not make him a target for indefinite punishment or detention disguised as prosecution.
The legal architecture surrounding him is bewildering even to trained observers: multiple charges in different courts, overlapping allegations, shifting statutory theories and duplicated claims arising from the same alleged events. If one application for bail is made and the conditions are met, another accusation can be filed the next day. If one judge must consider freedom, another process can be used to delay it.
This is how judicial procedure becomes premeditated punishment. This is how we have arrived at 150 days of unjust detention.
No Rolls Royce seized, No G-Wagons, Not a single Plaza, or Big Estate, not even an illegal plot of land tied to his name.
Just an honest man guilty of being in the opposition.
One of the highest levels of self-deceit is when political parties organize “primary elections” while openly manipulating the counting process in full public view. At that point, democracy is no longer being practiced — it is being mocked.
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Honored to be one of the two launchers in Nairobi of Africa House Paris with Emmanuel Macron. I commend President Macron’s vision and commitment to creating a space that will strengthen connections between Africa and France through culture, dialogue, business, and innovation.
Africa House, Paris, will serve as a platform for Africans and global partners to meet, collaborate, and build meaningful cross-cultural and economic partnerships.
Proud to be part of this journey and committed to seeing the vision through to completion.
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