The face-off between the leadership of the African Democratic Congress in Kaduna State and the state’s police command over alleged disturbance of public peace in the state and subsequent invitation for questioning by the police has taken a new dimension as former governor Mallam Nasir El – Rufai and ADC leaders shunned the invitation.
Also, El – Rufai who is a frontline member of the coalition ADC in Kaduna, submitted a petition against the state’s Commissioner of Police, Muhammad Rabiu, over alleged “unprofessional conduct, abuse of office, and serial violations” of people’s rights by officers of the command on the watch of Rabiu.
Members of the Kaduna ADC had allegedly suffered attacks by political thugs, prompting the ADC to accuse the police of looking the way while the thugs carried their assaults on them.
The Daily Crucible reports that the Kaduna police had sealed the Kaduna ADC secretariat last Thursday and subsequently invited El-Rufai and other ADC leaders for questioning over alleged “conspiracy, incitement, mischief, and disturbance of public peace in the state.”
In the invitation letter dated September 4, 2025, signed by Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department, DCP Uzairu Abdullahi, the Kaduna Police Command stated that the ADC State Chairman was directed to produce the seven persons before the State Criminal Investigation Department on September 8, 2025, to clarify allegations contained in a complaint filed by unnamed parties.
The individuals listed in the said letter include: Mallam Nasir El-Rufai; Bashir Sa’idu; Jafaru Sani; Ubaidullah Mohammed (a.k.a. “30”); Nasiru Maikano; Aminu Abita, and Ahmed Rufa’i Hussaini (a.k.a. “Mikiya”)
The letter also stated that: “This Department is currently investigating the above-mentioned case involving the following members of your party. You are requested to come along with them to SCID to clarify allegations reported against them by the complainants on 8th September, 2025.”
However, contrary to expectations
El-Rufai reported the police commissioner to the Police Service Commissioner in a petition he forwarded to the commission instead of honouring the police invitation. Others also shunned the invitation.
In a statement on Monday, September 8, by his media aide, Muyiwa Adekeye, the immediate past governor Kaduna State through the petition, alleged that the Commissioner of Police and some officers of the Kaduna Police Command had engaged in acts “unbecoming of their calling” since December 30, 2024.
He said he was compelled to alert the PSC after an earlier petition to the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, failed to tame what he called the “egregiously unlawful” conduct of the officers,
stressing that such behaviour tarnished the image of the force and eroded public confidence in its leadership.
“I am writing out of concern that the Nigeria Police, warts and all, is the only frontline law enforcement institution we have,” El-Rufai stated in a statement signed by his media adviser, Muyiwa Adekeye, in Kaduna on Monday.
“The duty of all citizens is not only to support it at every level but also to ensure that the commission is provided opportunities to deliver on its regulatory powers to enforce discipline and promote sound and ethical conduct by all police officers at all times,” he stated.
El-Rufai also accused some police officers in Kaduna of “serving interests other than those conferred by law.”
“This laudable goal can only be attained if the commission’s attention is continuously drawn to any egregious conduct of some bad eggs that serve interests other than those conferred by law in Section 4 of the Police Act, 2020.
“Such conduct thereby negatively affects the image of the Police and undermines public confidence in its leadership,” he added.
But the Kaduna State Police Command had yet to comment on the latest twist, especially the petition by El – Rufai to the Police Service Commission.
