Former presidential aide Reno Omokri has taken aim at former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai over remarks he made during an interview on Arise TV, characterising the purported admission of phone tapping as insensitive and callous.
Omokri, in a post on X on Friday night, argued that tapping a phone call without a court order is a crime.
He added that admitting to such action publicly raises serious legal and ethical concerns.
“Tapping a phone call without a court order is a crime. Admitting to it on live television is callous. Confessing that you were an accessory after the fact to unnamed individuals in the illegal tapping of a call is an open-and-shut case of your own culpability,” he said.
He further questioned who else may have been targeted.
“Who else has Mallam Nasir el-Rufai and his agents been tapping?”
“Has he and his associates been helping terrorists and coup plotters to tap the phone calls of their intended victims?,” he asked.
In another post, Omokri advised El-Rufai to keep talking.
“No wonder Nasir @elrufai boasted that he would unseat President Tinubu in 2027. Has he also tapped the INEC Chairman’s phone number?
He added that the situation raises questions about the push for real-time transmission of election results, arguing that if it is possible to intercept the phone of a National Security Adviser, then electoral technologies such as INEC’s IREV portal and BVAS devices could also be vulnerable to compromise.
“Nasir el-Rufai, keep talking. Keep digging. Keep exposing yourself,” he added.
