Thread by @ChidiOdinkalu

Nasir @elrufai has caused to be issued on his behalf a tissue of untruths, #halftruths & falsehoods concerning his brutal persecution of his critics as @GovKaduna. To help his memory, here is a litany of #bodybags of critics who have suffered at his hands

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Barack Zebedee: Ph.D student in fisheries & hydrology in Biology Dept., Ahmadu Bello Univ, Zaria: Arrested in May 2017 on charges of incitement for a post on a WhatsApp group created to mobilise assistance for victims of #SouthernKadunaMassacre

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Gabriel Idibia: journalist with The Union newspaper, dragged to court reportedly for being inquisitive about @elrufai's declared his assets as demanded by law.

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Jacob Onjewu Dickson: Journalist with Authentic News, was arrested, detained & charged with - yes, u guessed it - #Incitement in May 2016, after reporting that youths had pelted @elrufai with objects.

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Luka Binniyat: @Kindusluka was Kaduna Bureau Chief of @vanguardngrnews, when @elrufai ordered his arrest in Feb 2017 for a report under his by-line in the newspaper. Luka was detained for ovr 130 days without bail & El-Rufai instigated Vanguard to fire him
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Midat Joseph: Journalist with @LeadershipNGA, was arrested on orders of @elrufai in April 2017 for a post in a WhatsApp group. Guess what the charges against him were? #Incitement!

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Sunny Yayock: Freelance journalist, arrested, detained & charged to court for his comment on social Media supporting a call for peaceful Demonstration. He slept for two days in the police cell before he was taken to court & granted bail

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Adamu Abdullahi: #SocialMedia activist, was arrested by @PoliceNG in Kaduna for questioning, for reportedly re-tweeting a tweet about @elrufai being pelted with objects.

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Segun Onibiyo: @SegunOnibiyo, journalist with @radionigeriahq was arrested charged on orders of @elrufai on 14 Nov 2019 with - yes, u guessed it! - #Incitement, for his #socialmedia posts. He spent most of Dec 2019 detained b4 being released after 24 days

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Samuel Ogundipe: @SamuelOgundipe was a journalist with @PremiumTimesng when @elrufai's son, Bello, threatened to arrest him for reporting that Bello had threatened the Mum of sm1 who criticized his Dad, @GovKaduna, with #gangrape

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Dr. John Danfulani: @john_danfulani Lecturer in Kaduna State University was suspended, arrested, detained & charged for #incitement allegedly for criticising @elrufai through a Facebook post. He detained for many days before bail. He was also fired.

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Nasiru Jagaba: @Nasiru_Jagaba, national youth leader of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, @TvSokap, was arrested & faced prosecution for protesting against @elrufai's policies.

HRH Dr. Ishaku Damina: 1st Class paramount Chief of Kurama, in #SouthernKaduna, detained on trumped up charges for over a month on orders of @elrufai in 2017. He was eventually granted bail when Court found nothing against him.

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HRH, Dr. Maiwada Raphael Galadima, Agwam Adara: 1st Class Paramount Ruler of the Adara of #SouthernKaduna, abducted on a Friday with his wife after protesting @elrufai creating an Emirate over his kingdom. His body was discovered days later.

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Adara Elders, Bawa Magaji (Waziri); Sani Magaji, (Baraden);
Awemi Dio Maisamari; Joseph Abdalla; Tanko Maisanari; Hosea Danladi; Joseph Ayuba;
Tanko Wada; Ulu Maitumbi; arrested & detained for 106 days before being released bcos charges were trumped up

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Abubakar Idris (Dadiyata): University lecturer, abducted from the gate of his house in Barnawa Kaduna on 1 august 2019 & disappeared since. He is one of @elrufai's most prominent critics. Bashir El-Rufai implies that he knows smithing about this abduction.

#WhereIsDadiyata

Steven Kefason: @SKefason, journalist & activist was abducted from Rivers State on the orders of @elrufai, taken to Kaduna & detained for 162 days b4 bail. Charges? #Incitement. While he was detained, his #socialmedia footprint was wiped out

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Dr. Zuwaqhu Bonat: senior lecturer at Kaduna State University & a community leader, was sacked from his job on the orders of @elrufai for his advocacy work on behalf of the communities of #SouthernKaduna.

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Inuwa Abdulkadir: Lawyer, former Minister & NW Zonal Chair of @OfficialAPCNig, @elrufai demolished Inuwa's home in Kaduna when he declined support to suspend @ShehuSani from the party. Inuwa died in July with the case still pending in court.

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Suleiman Hunkuyi: former Kaduna State Chairman of @OfficialAPCNg & senator of @NGRSenate, @elrufai demolished Senator Hunkuyi's home in Unguwar Rimi over a political disagreement & converted it into a children's park.

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Danjuma Laah: Senator in @NGRSenate representing #SouthernKaduna, house raided by @PoliceNG & nephew arrested in Kaduna allegedly on orders of @elrufai after he spoke out on #SouthernKadunaMassacre & called for Southern Kaduna ppl to "defend themselves."

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Shehu Sani: @ShehuSani represented Kaduna Central in @NGRSenate on platform of @OfficialAPCNg. When he disagreed with @elrufai's brutalities, the gov. reportedly induced the party to turf him out of the party & started gloating.

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Audu Maikori: At the Lagos #SociaMediaWeek in 2017, @elrufai promised publicly that @Audu, lawyer & entrepreneur, will be abducted to Kaduna. True to his word, in Feb 2017, Audu was unlawfully vanished from Lagos to Kaduna on charges of incitement.

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Gloria Ballason: When then @NigBarAssoc president, @abmtwitt visited @elrufai in 2016 ovr #SouthernKaduna, the gov threatened to abduct #HumanRights lawyer & CEO @HOJusticeIntl, @GMabeiam ovr an article she wrote. She has many court orders against @elrufai
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Writing in 2014, @elrufai's longest boss, Obasanjo, said:
"...Character wise, Nasir has not much going for him. He's a malicious liar. He was more than that; he is a pathological purveyor of untruth & half-truths with little or no regard to integrity."

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This thread is merely illustrative & not exhaustive of the tale of @elrufai's crimes of #AbuseOfPower, #NapoleonSyndrome, & ruinous peeves & pettinesses.

This is necessitated by the tissue of mendacity issued on his behalf yesterday by @MOJKaduna.

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