Armed officials of the State Security Service (SSS) this afternoon invaded the Abuja’s residence of former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, after he refused to honour their invitation.

As reported this morning by News Express, el-Rufai, who is the Interim Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had dared the Nigerian secret police to arrest him, vowing not to go to the SSS headquarters to answer questions in connection with a newspaper interview in which he said the 2015 general elections would be bloody.

El-Rufai’s Media Advisor, Mr. Muyiwa Adekeye, told P.M.NEWS that at least 10 armed officials of the SSS invaded the residence of the former minister around noon but missed him as he was not at home.

“Adekeye said that El-Rufai, former Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, who had a pending case against the SSS for violating his right of movement when he was in Awka for the Anambra State gubernatorial election last year, had told the SSS that he would only honour the invitation if a warrant from a competent judge is presented, which the SSS failed to do as at the time the armed officials came to his residence,” said P.M. NEWS.

It quoted Adekeye as saying: “This is a flagrant abuse of people’s right by this government. We are living in a system which shows intolerance to freedom of movement and intolerance to freedom of expression. This is somebody that is making a candid advice to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, that it should conduct a free and fair election in 2015 and be impartial in its conduct so that the society won’t be thrown into undue chaos. I think this is a timely advice.”

Adekeye said that El-Rufai is still having a pending case against the SSS in Akwa, which hearing came up last week, but the SSS asked for adjournment which the court granted and the case was adjourned till next month.

•Photo shows el-Rufai.

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