El-Rufai to Report to SSS Headquarters Today

Former FCT Minister, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, who is being hunted by the State Security Service (SSS) will today willingly surrender himself to the agency.

The former minister, who is now the Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will be accompanied by some chieftains of the party and was due to arrive at the SSS headquarters in Asokoro, Abuja by 9am today.

It was further reported that members of the party planned to converge at the former minister's home in the Maitama District of Abuja. The group, to be joined by Mr. El-Rufai's lawyers, will then drive in a convoy to the SSS office and wait for him to be interrogated.

Mr. El-Rufai went underground on Friday after the SSS launched a manhunt for him, following his remarks at a conference in Abuja on Wednesday that there might be violence if the 2015 general elections were not credible.

APC had earlier condemned what it called the harassment of El-rufai by the Department of State Security (DSS) – whose officers had stormed two properties believed to belong to Mr. El-Rufai on Friday looking for him.

The party, speaking through its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, wondered why the DSS found his statements unsavory yet ignored people like Chief Edwin Clark, Asari Dokubo and Chukwuemeka Ezeife who issued a direct threat to Nigeria’s continued existence if President Goodluck Jonathan didn’t run for a second term.

“The DSS is free to join the police in becoming a partisan and compromised national institution, but it should weigh the consequences of such actions on its long-term credibility,” APC said