Nasir El-Rufai Calls Peter Obi A ‘Clown’ In A Tweet

Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai branded Peter Obi a “clown” Wednesday evening as he hit back at the Labour Party presidential candidate’s supporter who shared his throwback video.

Speaking on Monday in Kaduna, El Rufai told leaders from the northern part of the country under the umbrella of the Arewa Joint Committee for an interactive session that Peter Obi got him detained for 48 hours in 2013 while he was the governor of Anambra.

The Kaduna State Governor told cheering Arewa youths at the event that he has every power to pay Peter Obi back, but he won’t do it.

• “Before I finish, I want to say that I went to Anambra state for my party to monitor the election, Peter Obi who was a Governor put me under house arrest for 48 hours.
• Today, I am the Governor of Kaduna state and he’s coming to Kaduna to campaign and apart from other security agencies, I have the First Mechanized Division of the Army in Kaduna but I will not arrest him because we Northerners are civilized people.”

Supporters of Peter Obi responded to the accusation made by El Rufai by tagging him in a video in which he claimed that officers told him authorities from Abuja had given the order to arrest him.

In response, El Rufai said Peter Obi released a video in which he claimed to have authorized the arrest.