Why family members are denied visits to detained El-Rufai – ICPC, AGF

He is also pursuing a separate N1 billion fundamental rights suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja over alleged unlawful invasion of his house by ICPC operatives in Abuja in February.

El-Rufai has been detained by the ICPC for more than seven months since February based on a court order issued in an ongoing corruption proceeding instituted by the ICPC against him in Kaduna.

The former governor, who alleged that his wife and son were denied access to him prayed the court to declare that his fundamental human rights guaranteed under Part IV of the Nigerian constitution remain inviolable and in force notwithstanding his detention by the commission and should be honoured. The suit presents nine prayers in total.

The ICPC, responding in a joint counter-affidavit sworn by John Uche, a chief anti-corruption assistant in its Internal Security Support Unit, described several claims in the affidavit filed in support of El-Rufai’s suit as false.

Uche maintained that El-Rufai was in the lawful custody of the commission by order of the Federal High Court in Kaduna. He said the order was issued in a criminal case marked FHC/KD/73C/2025.