BREAKING: Phone-tapping: Court orders El-Rufai to defend himself

The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed the no-case submission filed by former Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai. El-Rufai is standing trial over alleged unlawful interception of telephone communications of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, in a ruling on Monday, held that the Department of State Services, DSS, has provided enough evidence to require the ex-governor to enter his defence. The judge, therefore, ordered El-Rufai, the sole defendant in the charge, to open his defence. El-Rufai, through his counsel, Akinyemi Aremu, had told the court that the prosecution failed to establish any case against him after the DSS closed its cas...