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Former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has denied knowledge of a Nigerian social media critic, Abubakar Idris, popularly known as Dadiyata.
Speaking during an interview on Arise Television’s ‘Prime Time’ on Friday, El-Rufai said he only got a report of Dadiyata’s existence after his family reported to the police that he was abducted.
He clarified that Dadiyata was not a critic of Kaduna State but that of Kano, adding that three days after his abduction, a policeman posted from Kano to Ekiti confessed to someone that they were sent from Kano to kidnap Dadiyata.
DAILY POST recalls that Dadiyata was whisked away by gunmen from his home in Barnawa, Kaduna State on August 1, 2019.
“Dadiyata is a critic of the Kano government. He was a fierce critic of the Kano state government. He’s from Kano. He lives in Kaduna and lectures at a university in Katsina State.
“It was Ganduje that was his problem. I don’t even know him. We only got a report of Dadiyata’s existence after his family reported to the police that he was abducted. That is the only thing I know, but it was not a problem for Kaduna State,” he said.
