El-Rufai files ₦1bn suit against ICPC over Abuja home invasion
Naija News • 6d ago
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A former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has filed a N1 billion fundamental rights enforcement suit against the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission over the alleged unlawful invasion and search of his Abuja residence.
In the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/345/2026 and filed at the Federal High Court in Abuja on February 20 by his counsel, Oluwole Iyamu (SAN), El-Rufai is challenging the validity of a search warrant issued on February 4 by a Chief Magistrate of the FCT Magistrates’ Court.
He is asking the court to declare the warrant authorising the search and seizure at his residence invalid, null and void.
According to the application, the former governor contended that the warrant was “null and void for lack of particularity, material dr...