El Rufai is currently in detention up till now because of a political witch hunt as there are plans to keep there until after the 2027 Presidential election, El Rufai is a profound mobilizer and those who are still keeping him know what he can do during campaign. However, we can’t deny the fact that El rufai contributed to his arrest by saying on TV that ‘We tap the NSA’s phone’ that’s a very sensitive statement, he played into the hands of his political opponents, if he didn’t utter such statement, they weren’t plans of arresting him, it can be speculated that El Rufai made such statement in order to get arrested to there’ll be protest all over the nation for his release. He uttered the statement when ADC was waxing strong when top opposition members like Peter Obi and others were part, he probably overestimated the coalition wave to come though for him, traditional rulers in the north have tried to intervened but the President told them he’s not behind his arrest but the NSA