BREAKING: El-Rufai drags Kaduna Assembly to court over corruption allegations

Nasir El-Rufai, the former governor of Kaduna State, has filed a lawsuit against the Kaduna State House of Assembly in response to allegations of corruption.

It is important to remember that the legislators had alleged that El-Rufai’s administration syphoned ₦432bn, resulting in the state being saddled with substantial debt liabilities.

El-Rufai on Wednesday filed a fundamenatal rights suit at Federal High Court in Kaduna against state House of Assembly.

The suit, filed by the ex-governor’s lawyer Abdulhakeem Mustapha, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, challenged the report of the Kaduna Assembly Committee which indicted El-Rufai for alleged corruption.

In the suit, El-Rufai asked the court to declare the report of the Assembly probe as null and void having not been given the opportunity of fair hearing over the allegations levelled against him and his administration by the committee.

Joined in the suit as respondents are the Kaduna State House of Assembly and  state Attorney General and  Commissioner of Justice.