{"id":233593,"date":"2026-05-18T04:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-release-el-rufai-before-sallah-atiku-tells-tinubu-uba-sani\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:20:44","slug":"nigeria-release-el-rufai-before-sallah-atiku-tells-tinubu-uba-sani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-release-el-rufai-before-sallah-atiku-tells-tinubu-uba-sani\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Release El-Rufai Before Sallah, Atiku Tells Tinubu, UBA Sani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has asked President Bola Tinubu and the Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, to immediately release former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Condemning his continued detention, especially at a time when Muslims across Nigeria are preparing for the Eid al-Kabir celebrations, as &#8220;cruel, unjustifiable, and deeply troubling&#8221;, Atiku described the development as a disturbing assault on civil liberties, democratic decency, and the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">His Senior&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605150370.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 has asked President Bola Tinubu and the Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, to immediately release former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai. Condemning his continued detention, especially at a time when Muslims across Nigeria are preparing for the Eid al-Kabir celebrations, as &#8220;cruel, unjustifiable, and deeply troubling&#8221;, Atiku described the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233594,"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":[258,256,9899,21159,257,4687,393,6011,14128,20491,254,7036,8308,6836],"class_list":["post-233593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atiku","tag-elrufai","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-release","tag-sallah","tag-sani","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tells","tag-tinubu","tag-uba"],"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\/233593","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=233593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}