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Mallam Nasir El-Rufai is on trial as several government agencies have accused him of committing various offences. He is currently being detained by the ICPC, but the court ordered that he should be allowed to go to the hospital to see his doctor. It ordered that such visits should strictly be for medical reasons.

However, Honourable Isa Mohammed Ashiru Kudan posted a photo that he took with Mallam El-Rufai. Honourable Ashiru was the PDP Kaduna State governorship candidate in the 2023 elections and he is the ADC candidate for the same position in the 2027 elections.

The ICPC believes that the hospital visit was used as a ploy to have a political meeting and so it arrested Mallam El-Rufai's doctor, Professor Bello Abubakar for violating the court order and making false statements.

Mallam El-Rufai's party, the ADC, accused the ICPC of arresting the doctor because he insisted that El-Rufai needed to be admitted. They also claim that ICPC officers assaulted the doctor and El-Rufai's wife. The ICPC says that its officers acted professionally.

Meanwhile, El-Rufai's wife, Hajia Asiya El-Rufai, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to guarantee Mallam El-Rufai's constitutional rights. She said that she campaigned for President Tinubu and her husband stood beside him. She said that she's not saying that he should not be prosecuted, but that his rights should be respected. She said that Tinubu is a father and that she knows that one word from Tinubu can change the situation.

Corruption case: ICPC arrests El-Rufai’s personal physician over alleged false statements

By : Saxone Akhaine
Date: 8 July 2026

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has explained the circumstances surrounding the arrest of Professor Bello Abubakar, personal physician to former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai.

The anti-graft agency said the doctor was arrested for allegedly making false statements after photographs surfaced showing the African Democratic Congress (ADC) governorship candidate in Kaduna State, Isa Ashiru, and other visitors meeting with El-Rufai during a court-approved medical visit to the National Hospital, Abuja.

In a statement issued by its spokesperson, Demola Bakare, the commission said the incident raised concerns that the hospital visit may have been used for purposes beyond the medical consultation authorised by the court. According to the ICPC, El-Rufai was taken to the private wing of the National Hospital, Abuja, on July 7 under security arrangements approved by the Kaduna State High Court to enable him receive medical attention.

The commission said its security and medical personnel conducted themselves professionally throughout the exercise and respected the former governor’s privacy by remaining outside the consultation room while he was being examined by an oncologist. However, the agency said the situation took a different turn after a Facebook post by Isa Ashiru surfaced online.

According to the statement, the post contained photographs showing Ashiru, Professor Abubakar and three other individuals meeting with El-Rufai during the period he was expected to be undergoing medical consultation. The ICPC said the development suggested that the hospital visit had gone beyond the scope authorised by the court.

“The images and post by Isa Ashiru indicated that the arranged medical visit was utilised for activities outside the scope contemplated by the court and the ICPC. This is a clear violation of the court order,” the statement said.

The commission added that Professor Abubakar was subsequently taken into custody for allegedly making false statements regarding the circumstances surrounding the visit. It further alleged that professional courtesies repeatedly extended to the former governor had been abused, making a thorough investigation necessary.

The ICPC, however, did not disclose the specific false statements allegedly made by the physician, stating that investigations were ongoing. The arrest adds a fresh dimension to the corruption case involving the former governor.

Efforts to obtain reactions from Professor Abubakar, El-Rufai or Isa Ashiru were unsuccessful as of the time of filing this report.

https://guardian.ng/news/corruption-case-icpc-arrests-el-rufais-personal-physician-over-alleged-false-statements/

This was the post that caused the problem.

Rt. Hon. Isa Mohammed Ashiru @IsaAshiruKudan

Today, I met with my brother and National Leader @elrufai.

Our conversation has only deepened our resolve. The ADC in Kaduna is not merely ready, we are fully ABLE to dislodge the incompetent APC-led administration that has failed the good people of our state.

Enough of the hardship, enough of the excuses. With unity, courage and the will of the people, we will rescue Kaduna and restore justice, development and dignity.

Kaduna! 2027 is our year of redemption.

https://x.com/i/status/2074473896342888550

Mr. President, Sir, I campaigned for you. I stood up and went to every nook and cranny of Kaduna State for you. My husband stood by your side. Is this what our family deserves? The ball is in your court, Mr. President. All these can stop if you say a word. We believe that you are a father, and we know you can empathise.

Please, I am not asking you to tell them not to prosecute him, but we are asking you to allow him the basic human rights that the Constitution you swore to uphold and defend guarantees.

Let them give him the bail that he can afford. If he is guilty, let the court decide. If he is innocent, let the court decide.

- Hajiya Asiya El-Rufai, wife of former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai, yesterday appealed to President Tinubu to grant her husband fair bail terms.

Mr. President, Sir, I campaigned for you. I stood up and went to every nook and cranny of Kaduna State for you. My husband stood by your side. Is this what our family deserves? The ball is in your court, Mr. President. All these can stop if you say a word. We believe that you are… pic.twitter.com/g0MMqLTRLa

— Nigerian Affairs Journal (@NigAffairs) July 8, 2026

But you could have told him to stop tapping and listening to confidential information.
How do we know who has been giving the terrorists information about the Nigerian military

Hon. Mohammed Bello El-Rufai @B_ELRUFAI

Press Statement: The African Democratic Congress (ADC) is deeply alarmed by reports that today, officials of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) forcefully denied Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai access to medical care, arrested his personal physician and physically assaulted his wife.

Information reaching us is that El-Rufai was billed for treatment at the National Hospital in Abuja today. But against the hospital's advice that he would require hospitalisation in view of his failing health, officials of the ICPC insisted on returning him into custody. Protests by his personal physician and his wife led to scuffles during which his wife was assaulted and the doctor subsequently arrested.

The actions of the ICPC and the Tinubu government have for months now gone beyond the realm of law enforcement.

Their actions have become an assault on the Constitution of 200 million Nigerians, on human dignity, and on the most basic principles of justice and human rights.

The world should know today that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is holding a political prisoner in Nigeria by the name of Mallam Nasiru El-Rufai.

No democratic government that claims to respect the rule of law should deny a detainee access to medical care or prevent close family members from seeing him in flagrant disobedience of the courts, which granted him unfettered access to his lawyers, physician and family members.

Such conduct belongs to authoritarian regimes that use state institutions to break political opponents rather than to uphold justice.

This is no longer about Mallam El-Rufai alone. It is about whether Nigeria remains a constitutional democracy or has descended into a republic where law enforcement agencies have become instruments of political persecution.

As we have said since this treatment of Mallam El-Rufai began: “Today it is El-Rufai. Tomorrow it could be any Nigerian whose only offence is to disagree with those who wield power.”

The ICPC owes Nigerians immediate explanations. On whose authority was access to his family denied? Why has access to his doctor been refused despite concerns about his health? What legal basis exists for these actions? Why were El-Rufai’s wife and doctor assaulted by the ICPC operatives?

President Tinubu cannot continue to hide behind anti-corruption agencies while pretending that these actions are independent of his administration.

Under our Constitution, the buck stops with the President. Every day that Mallam El-Rufai remains in custody under these circumstances is another day that Bola Tinubu keeps criminalising political opposition instead of confronting the grave crises of insecurity, unemployment, inflation, and hunger confronting millions of Nigerians.

The ADC therefore demands the following:

1. Immediate and unrestricted access for Mallam El-Rufai to his wife, children, legal team, and personal medical practitioners.

2. An urgent review of the punitive and disproportionate bail conditions imposed on Mallam El-Rufai, with a view to ensuring that they conform with the Constitution and the fundamental principle that bail is intended to secure attendance at trial, not to inflict punishment before conviction.

3. An immediate end to the harsh, degrading and unnecessarily restrictive conditions under which he is being held and supervised, and his release from what has become a regime of political persecution masquerading as lawful process.

4. Full compliance with all constitutional guarantees and internationally recognised standards governing the treatment of persons in custody.

5. Complete transparency from the ICPC regarding the legal and factual basis for every restriction imposed on him.

6. An immediate end to the use of state institutions as instruments of political intimidation, vendetta and selective justice.

Signed:

Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, @BolajiADC 
National Publicity Secretary
African Democratic Congress (ADC)

https://x.com/i/status/2074542982988984403

When your husband is speaking balabala
Why u no caution him?

naptu2:
Hon. Mohammed Bello El-Rufai @B_ELRUFAI



https://x.com/i/status/2074542982988984403

How can El-Rufai doctor be stopping the ICPC from doing Thier job?

Their explanation has caused more damage

How are Nigerians this patient with their leaders, but unforgiving to petty thieves on the streets?

This Elrufai and his crew should stop disturbing us. He campaigned for APC and Tinubu. He should enjoy his own dividend of Tinubu's government

Mouth no go put us for trouble oh. i come dey take style pity agent.

Everybody shout power. Unfortunately it is transient. Yesterday it was Elrufai turn, today is Tinubu's turn. Who could believe that Elrufai will be treated this way? While you are holding and discharging it, do that responsibly. Shehu Sani will be laughing somewhere.

Ogbeni Rufai enjoy your karma in peace, when you been dey wine and dine with the devil called APC, we no hear story.

I'm touched to help this woman with 3 million dollars for her husband treatment. Her statement touched my spirit

Oncologist? Did someone just reveal to us that El Rufai may have cancer? Hope this was done with El Rufai's consent.

The boy who was calling tinubu Pablo suppose join in the appeal

Dem really mean el rufai... Why him sef go talk like that for national television?

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Mouth no go put us for trouble oh. i come dey take style pity agent.

Don't worry your time will come too.. Yesterday rufai was happy and today karma is dealing with him.. Your own karma is also coming just that it won't be popular like this but it will certainly come and will be brutal

All this political witch-hunting sef.

Rufai El....will be released unconditionally by the end of elections, na to remove his kurukere political strategy, that man can convince Obi to join ADC again, if release

Elrufai dey collect wotowoto...
Who the fkk are you to tap the phone of NSA under Jagaban and still go on air to brag about it. You gonn learn

Tinubu is working. No time for any rebellious friend.

lol this doctor no too wise.

Doing that kind of stunt at this stage when you’re likely being watch is stwepeedeetty.

El-Rufai should have learnt his lesson now that he is not untouchable. The way he and his kids talk feels like they believe they own Nigeria and can talk anyhow.

Ribadu should free El-Rufai for the sake of old time. Point made already

givedemwotowoto:
How are Nigerians this patient with their leaders, but unforgiving to petty thieves on the streets?

You mean if El-Rufai confessed on TV that he hacked the NSA's phone during Obi's presidency, we should also stand up to Obi's government and give him woto woto For prosecuting El Rufai?

Birds of same feathers





Flock together





Ni different btw eErafiu and Tinubu

hegelian:
Don't worry your time will come too.. Yesterday rufai was happy and today karma is dealing with him.. Your own karma is also coming just that it won't be popular like this but it will certainly come and will be brutal

Please what do you mean by his time will come? So El Rufai's confession on TV is a good act ?

Very Good, every politician must learn new things..
I am not surprised

naptu2:
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai is on trial as several government agencies have accused him of committing various offences. He is currently being detained by the ICPC, but the court ordered that he should be allowed to go to the hospital to see his doctor. It ordered that such visits should strictly be for medical reasons.

However, Honourable Isa Mohammed Ashiru Kudan posted a photo that he took with Mallam El-Rufai. Honourable Ashiru was the PDP Kaduna State governorship candidate in the 2023 elections and he is the ADC candidate for the same position in the 2027 elections.

The ICPC believes that the hospital visit was used as a ploy to have a political meeting and so it arrested Mallam El-Rufai's doctor, Professor Bello Abubakar for violating the court order and making false statements.

Mallam El-Rufai's party, the ADC, accused the ICPC of arresting the doctor because he insisted that El-Rufai needed to be admitted. They also claim that ICPC officers assaulted the doctor and El-Rufai's wife. The ICPC says that its officers acted professionally.

Meanwhile, El-Rufai's wife, Hajia Asiya El-Rufai, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to guarantee Mallam El-Rufai's constitutional rights. She said that she campaigned for President Tinubu and her husband stood beside him. She said that she's not saying that he should not be prosecuted, but that his rights should be respected. She said that Tinubu is a father and that she knows that one word from Tinubu can change the situation.




https://guardian.ng/news/corruption-case-icpc-arrests-el-rufais-personal-physician-over-alleged-false-statements/

El-Rufai mishandled State Powers when he was Kaduna State Governor. He was brutal!

So, El Rufai should not be tried for the confessional statement he made about tapping the NSA line. We need to understand you.

edogu:
Everybody shout power. Unfortunately it is transient. Yesterday it was Elrufai turn, today is Tinubu's turn. Who could believe that Elrufai will be treated this way? While you are holding and discharging it, do that responsibly. Shehu Sani will be laughing somewhere.

No peace for the wicked ... fake diagnosis or what?

Good.Arrest ALL these CRIMINALS

Nice one... Arrest dem all


This is for helping to bring this terrible APC to Nigerians

Whatever

This short devil finally meets his match, since days of Obj , he thinks no pot is big enough to cook him, it's seems pot that roasting him now, is even bigger than his meat.


What short devil did for Yaradua and Jonathan ehn, is more than shege banza.