₦airaland Forum

Lifestone:
Unfortunately he indicted himself on Arise, that's enough to prove direct involvement, accessory to a crime and 7years in prison, aside he won't be able to vie for elective position again

Is that what your cranium processed from the legal consultation I just gave to you? Sigh.

This Ribadu's Vice President in waiting sef! And I heard he's the smartest among the other water carriers in that camp.

Lifestone:
Lawyer that will on National Television admit to crime. Yeye dey smell

What crime? Are you referring to the tapping? Elrufai will simply plead not guilty and the onus will now lie on the NSA to prove with technical evidence and beyond reasonable doubt, that he did tap his phone.

Section 36(11) of Nigeria's 1999 Constitution (as amended) provides that no person shall be compelled to give evidence against themselves in a criminal matter.

Translation: Even if I say I bedded your wife, you can't charge me to court and win unless you are able to prove it. I will simply decline to testify against myself. I'll send an invoice later for the legal consultation. It's not free.

Baawaa:
El-rufai don entered one chance,where are the people singing continue dancing we are watching your back

Just like in the past, EFCC will come out empty. Mallam ran the most documented government in the history of Kaduna and we heard he went to the EFCC office with a hillux full of documents showing every kobo spent as governor of Kaduna. To add to that, Elrufai is a first class student in law from the University of Harvard. I'm sure whoever will be interrogating him at the Commission will learn a lot and tap from his wealth of wisdom and knowledge. It's part of capacity building.

This doesn't mean the well oiled Lagos-Ibadan Expressway media propaganda machinery like TheNation led by Tinubu’s water carrier, Sam Omatseye, will not have a field day with sensational headlines but that's where it stops. There are levels to this thing o.

Putindbutt:
I want to be certain that Nairaland won't give attention to this paid foreign meddlesome interloper.

We didn't see him condemn the national security of his country when Mossad intercepted phone intimacy calls between Bill Clinton and his mistress, Monica in the White House.

When National guards were attacked and killed near the white house, I didn't see this foreign clown 🤡 come online to mock his country's national security. Neither have we heard him have a say on ICE agents k.i.ll.ing and harassing US citizens.

Okay, here's the thing. If I told you that someone slept with your wife and told me about it, are you going to charge me to court for adultery or force me to say who? Is it my duty to help your wife maintain her chastity?

Elrufai will simply plead not guilty and the onus will now lie on the NSA to prove with technical evidence and beyond reasonable doubt, that he did tap his phone.

Section 36(11) of Nigeria's 1999 Constitution (as amended) provides that no person shall be compelled to give evidence against themselves in a criminal matter.

Translation: Even if I say I bedded your wife, you can't charge me to court and win unless you are able to prove it. I will simply decline to testify against myself. I'll send an invoice later for the legal consultation. It's not free.

Lol. Mike Arnold no worry yourself jare. Tinubu's water carriers will soon invade this thread to call you names. Those charges are the most ridiculous and self-indicting charge I have ever seen. Elrufai will eat it for lunch. He didn't get a first class degree in law from Harvard for nothing. Malam is in a league of his own. Agbadorians are playing in his turf but he determines the momentum and pace. He already took the shine from both Tinubu's visit to Yola and Shettima's reception of Abba Kabir in Kano. It was all gloom.

Why the heck is he walking like that!?

hotseat:
Once we are able to put our emotions in check, we would be able to examine issues more critically and more dispassionately.

The NSA is not admitting that it indeed import the said poisonous substance but, El-Rufai voluntarily made a confession of tapping the phone lines of the ONSA.

This is an entirely separate offense.

So, he needs to tell the DSS how he, as an individual and a non-state actor, could perform this feat.

He would have to explain in detail whether he operated alone or in company of others.

Most Nigerians don't know the magnitude of the offenses hanging on El-Rufai's neck.


@hotseat

Stop trying to be clever by half. You weren't the only one who watched the interview. Play the part where Elrufai admitted to personally tapping the phone of the NSA. He will plead not guilty and the onus will now lie on the NSA to prove with technical evidence and beyond reasonable doubt, that he did. Elrufai is also a graduate of law from the University of Harvard. He graduated with a first class. No put body o! Person wey pass you don pass you.

Section 36(11) of Nigeria's 1999 Constitution (as amended) provides that no person shall be compelled to give evidence against themselves in a criminal matter.

Translation: Even if I say I bedded your wife, you can't charge me to court and win unless you are able to prove it. I will simply decline to testify against myself. I'll send an invoice later for the legal consultation. It's not free.

damoobaba:
He has been told to SUBMIT evidence

Lol. Okay, assuming he has no evidence, what's the next move by the DSS? Provide evidence that he did abi?

dederocs:
His statements on TV can be used against him...it is up to him to convince the judge.

Stop crying. Didn't you support him in 2023 when he was busy making Tinubu president?

free2ryhme:
El rufai will be politically finished

You wish. Tinubu will kiss the dust again, just like in Turkey. If I say someone slept with your wife and told me about it. Are you going to sue me for adultery?

dederocs:
His admission in itself can be used against him, he said it on cable TV.

So the admission by Reno Omokri that Tinubu is a drug baron and a criminal cannot be used by the courts to exonerate Sowore abi? Elrufai has a law degree from Harvard and he's an "A" student. There's nothing you can tell him about law that he does not know. Once he pleads not guilty, the onus will be on DSS to prove that he did. He will floor Tinubu and his water carriers in court.

Relass, Tinubu is Finishing Nigerians (RTIFN)

ObiPandora:
So it is no longer Obi theybare afraid of it is now Jonathan Ebele. How do you live your life without any iota of intelligence in your medulla.

Tinubu is afraid of every opposition. Even Seyi Makinde and Adeleke in his own Southwest region. That's why he's withholding local government funds and now begging for a "political solution" in order to release it.

AndroBlaze:
One thing I like about Nigerian politics is if you partake long enough in it, you are guaranteed to be on the losing side one day i.e. you can never win for eternity like most of the political blue bloods, demi gods and actors have found out (Dasuki, OBJ, Kwakwanso, Abachas, David Mark etc)

My advice to you is get use to being on the losing side and just pray your master that you worship dug the graves well and hid the bones.... because he is in for a long thing from what I can see.

History has a funny way of repeating itself. We've been here before and we all know how it ended. Time is a gentleman, my friend.

The well oiled propaganda machinery of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway media gave been unleashed. Media trials is dead in arrival as far as Elrufai is concerned. Get your facts together and sue him to court. He will meet you there.

autoez:
After EFCC, he'll face DSS

After defeating EFCC and DSS, he will then face Tinubu squarely and ensure his defeat at the polls. No put body o!

I hope Tinubu will release enough funds to the agency for them to carry out their job? Relax, Tinubu is finishing Nigerians. Elrufai went with a hilux full of documents showing every single penny spent as governor of Kaduna. Whoever will be interrogating Elrufai today at the EFCC will learn a lot from his level of knowledge and his wealth of experience.

Tinubu will be the first ex-president to stand trial and made to account for every single penny spent. It will happen! Time is a gentleman.

Media trials led by the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway propaganda machinery will never stick on Elrufai. Northerners know that Elrufai can be called anything but not corrupt. EFCC will never be able to make anything stick against Elrufai. It's dead on arrival.

Olat4421:
Nw I believe Nairaland is control by apc d way dey are painting some of there main opposition just because dey did not support there candidate, I believe if rufia was still at apc he will ave became a Siant I will not be surprised if next week if will be turn of atiku follow by obi, as if d tryant at apc are holy, when are d going to open gandollar file also

Pay no mind to them. The more they attack Mallam, the more grounds they loose in the North. Same way Elrufai's messaging was effective in 2023 when he was campaigning for Tinubu, the same way his messaging is effective now. Back them, they were kikiki-ing all over the place and calling him the next president after Tinubu. Only to win and then backstab him. By 2027, they'll backstab Ribadu and move on quickly with no qualms if they manage to win the election.

Another rookie mistake by the NSA. The NSA's tone in categorically using the statement "the DSS will invite you" suggests hints of intimidation. He speaks like he has overriding command over the DSS but in truth, his job is just as an Adviser to the president and a coordinator at best, unlike what we have today. He should be aware he can't be the judge and jury in his own case and a citizen has the right to request for clarification and only the guilty are afraid. Strategically, he has proven to be no match for Elrufai and is only camouflaging that with silence while pretending to be busy.

This is the most random statement ever unless something is at play. Henry Okah is still in jail in South Africa. Who activated him to be releasing statements from jail and for what purpose? I thought the chapter on Jonathan's aspirations have been closed? Who is afraid of Goodluck Jonathan?

Ofunaofu:
El-Rufai addressed the NSA. If the Presidency is responding, then perhaps they see themselves in the letter

This! Even the NSA has responded by threatening Elrufai with the DSS but that shouldn't be the prerogative of the NSA.

The NSA's tone in categorically using the statement "the DSS will invite you" suggests hints of intimidation. He speaks like he has overriding command over the DSS but in truth, his job is just as an Adviser to the president and a coordinator at best, unlike what we have today. He should be aware he can't be the judge and jury in his own case and a citizen has the right to request for clarification and only the guilty are afraid.

Exousiang01:
Unlike you lots some people get facts and think before they talk.

If he doesn't have any information on the matter what do you want him to say?
Even if he has an information it is within his right not to speak about it.


Reno is very close to the NSA they are long time friends and I am sure Reno must have put a call or two across but this is a sensitive matter of national security, something educated illiterates in the opposition do not understand.

You better sit down and think of how to make your life better instead of sitting down salivating over what Reno has to say.

If morally flexible characters and professional shape-shifters like Reno are friends with the NSA, it explains why information like these are getting leaked. Characters that will throw their own mother under the bus for crumbs are not whom the NSA should be keeping as friends and even offering ambassadorial appointments to.

Exousiang01:
It is supposed to be classified.
If your El-rufai knows this,it's only proof that he tapped the NSAs phone.
I don't know the ingredients used to making military hardware, so I do not have that information.
You don't see the US, Russia,China making announcements of what and what they use to produce military hardware.
It only Nigerians that want their government to release classified information,then they turn and and cry that terrorists are getting information that they shouldn't.

And there is no evidence that the NSA imported such.
Even if they did, it is a matter of national security and not an issue for public discuss....

You Nigerians know nothing about governance.

It's only Nigerians that demand the Chief of Defense Staff make public announcement of their strategies. Only Nigerians demand the DHQ tell them what and what they military wants to do as if the terrorists are not listening....

Nigeria cannot get better with the way you lots think.
Too much ignorance

Pathetic comeback. Classified fire! Its usage, even on terrorists, constitutes a war crime because it's a chemical weapon? Technology to tap phones only exists at government-tier level and Elrufai is a civilian with no access. If any lines are getting tapped, it's within the NSA's circle. He should clean up his house.

You mean Reno, Ribadu's V.P in waiting? They are strategizing on how to respond. It took them by surprise. Now, they don't know how much Elrufai knows and they are being careful. Elrufai is a man of many resources and he never backs down from a fight. Body go tell you! They jumped on the "tapping" bait without thinking and inadvertently gave anything emanating from him absolute credibility. They never saw the "Thallium Sulphate" left hook sucker punch coming. If the Villa wasn't aware of the "importation", questions will now begin to get asked internally.

You can't put anything past a government paying 250 billion per governor for them to decamp and withholding the local government allocation of an entire state where he comes from while millions go hungry, all in a bid to subdue the governor and get him to cooperate.

Obaofaba:
El Rufai should be interrogated to produce the police officers who abducted him.

Since he claimed to know one of them.

Shouldn't this be an avenue to nail Ganduje by El Rufai?


Everyone is not stupid.

Don't play politics with people's lives.

The Nigerian police are under the federal government of the federation. That is the reason why Tinubu is still retaining Egbetokun Long after retirement. Simply ask Tinubu to direct Egbetokun to produce the police officers.

Tinubu’s water carriers have already taken over the thread. Dadiyatta disappeared before Tinubu went to Chatham house with Elrufai o. Long before Elrufai took Buhari to supreme.court over naira scarcity and won, to the benefit of Tinubu. Ribadu is their new darling now but they will throw him under the bus after 2027 if they manage to win. Just like Shettima.

Has he visited Kwara yet?