{"id":223799,"date":"2026-02-15T00:18:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-atiku-visits-el-rufai-after-airport-arrest-saga\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T00:18:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:18:51","slug":"nigeria-atiku-visits-el-rufai-after-airport-arrest-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-atiku-visits-el-rufai-after-airport-arrest-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Atiku Visits El-Rufai After Airport Arrest Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar paid what he called a solidarity visit to former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai on Thursday night, barely hours after the former governor condemned an attempt by security agents to arrest him at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, following his arrival from Cairo, Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">In a post on X on Friday morning, Atiku said &#8220;Last night, I paid a solidarity visit to the former Governor of Kaduna State and stalwart of the African Democratic Congress&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602130368.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar paid what he called a solidarity visit to former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai on Thursday night, barely hours after the former governor condemned an attempt by security agents to arrest him at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, following his arrival from Cairo, Egypt. In a post on X [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,2819,6414,9899,21159,257,4687,393,7674,254,7189],"class_list":["post-223799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airport","tag-arrest","tag-atiku","tag-elrufai","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-saga","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visits"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}