{"id":226557,"date":"2026-03-11T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-el-rufais-lawyer-criticises-icpc-over-leaks-linking-ex-governor-to-cairo-properties-demands-his-release\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:06:00","slug":"nigeria-el-rufais-lawyer-criticises-icpc-over-leaks-linking-ex-governor-to-cairo-properties-demands-his-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-el-rufais-lawyer-criticises-icpc-over-leaks-linking-ex-governor-to-cairo-properties-demands-his-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: El-Rufai&#8217;s Lawyer Criticises ICPC Over &#8216;Leaks&#8217; Linking Ex-Governor to Cairo Properties, Demands His Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>ICPC says its actions regarding Mr El-Rufai, who has now been detained for about 21 days, are guided by law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Detained former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai&#8217;s legal team has accused the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) of fabricating narratives linking him to multi-billion-naira properties in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The team lead, Ubong Akpan, said this in a statement on Monday, reacting to several news reports alleging that ICPC&#8217;s investigations had uncovered six&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603100515.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICPC says its actions regarding Mr El-Rufai, who has now been detained for about 21 days, are guided by law. Detained former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai&#8217;s legal team has accused the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) of fabricating narratives linking him to multi-billion-naira properties in Egypt. The team lead, Ubong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":226558,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,341,10162,6979,415,16446,8362,22258,8000,8069,18758,257,4687,14665,6011,254],"class_list":["post-226557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cairo","tag-criticises","tag-demands","tag-egypt-news","tag-elrufais","tag-exgovernor","tag-icpc","tag-lawyer","tag-leaks","tag-linking","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-properties","tag-release","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/226557","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}