The detained former Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has filed a N10billion suit against the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), alleging gross violation of his fundamental rights.

In the suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1852/2026, which he lodged before the Federal High Court in Abuja, the embattled former governor accused the ICPC of denying his wife, Aichatou Asabe, and son, Abba El-Rufai, access to him.

He is praying the court to declare that the repeated refusal of the prosecuting agency to allow his family members access to him, particularly to provide food, medication and other necessities, without lawful justification or a court order, amounted to a violation of his fundamental rights under Sections 34 and 37 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, as well as Articles 5 and 18 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

El-Rufai, through his lawyer, Ubong Akpan, told the court that officials of the ICPC physically restrained and intimidated his wife and son on July 7, insisting the action was an arbitrary interference with his spousal and filial relationships.

He urged the court to declare that the respondents’ continued denial of family access without lawful authority is unconstitutional, illegal, null and void.

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