My SSS interrogation session was boring –El-Rufai

A former minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, who was on Monday interrogated by the State Security Service for about 15 hours, has described the experience as “boring.”

The SSS had questioned el-Rufai for allegedly making statements, which it deemed capable of inciting Nigerians to violence in 2015.

Spokesman to the former FCT minister and Interim Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Muyiwa Adekeye, had posted a message on Twitter at about 12:40am on Tuesday, announcing that his boss was released in the wee hours of the day.

“Mallam Nasir El-Rufai left the SSS premises at 12:35 am today (Tuesday) after more than 15 hours,” Adekeye had tweeted.

Responding to questions from his social media fans after he was released, El-Rufai said the SSS interrogation was “great fun but boring” while it lasted.

He described the challenges he was having, especially in the hands of the SSS, as part of “life” and vowed not to give in to intimidation, “lawlessness and impunity.”

El-Rufai agreed with many of his fans that the date of the 2015 presidential elections, scheduled to hold on Valentine’s Day, will encourage voter apathy on the part of the youths.

He accused the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Federal Government of attempting to manipulate the electoral process by doing so.

“They have definite plans to rig the elections in Ekiti and Osun states in 2014, and the entire nation in 2015. We will not be intimidated into silence!” he tweeted.

Quoting the famous Irish political theorist and philosopher, Edmund Burke, El-Rufai said, “The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing. That is the challenge we face in Nigeria!”

Source : Punch