El-Rufai admits wiretapping NSA’s phone on TV, DSS witness testifies

A prosecution witness in the trial of former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai has told the Federal High Court in Abuja that El-Rufai confirmed during a television interview that he was involved in wiretapping the phone lines of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu.
The witness, Barrister Deji Adeyanju, testifying as the second prosecution witness, said he appeared on an Arise Television programme on February 13, the same day El-Rufai allegedly made the confession on the same station.
Adeyanju quoted El-Rufai as saying during the interview: “We listened to the conversations of the NSA.”
Led in evidence by prosecution counsel Oluwole Aladedoye, Adeyanju confirmed that ...