{"id":1344,"date":"2026-10-26T10:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/alleged-phone-tapping-court-rejects-el-rufais-no-case-submission\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T10:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:32:18","slug":"alleged-phone-tapping-court-rejects-el-rufais-no-case-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/alleged-phone-tapping-court-rejects-el-rufais-no-case-submission\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged phone-tapping: Court rejects El-Rufai\u2019s no-case submission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Alleged-phone-tapping-Court-rejects-El-Rufais-no-case-submission.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"el-Rufai\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Alleged-phone-tapping-Court-rejects-El-Rufais-no-case-submission.jpg 696w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-76-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday dismissed a no-case submission filed by former Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State in his ongoing trial over alleged unlawful interception of the telephone communications of the National Security Adviser (NSA), Nuhu Ribadu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, in a ruling, held that the Department of State Services (DSS) had placed before the court sufficient evidence to warrant the court to call on the ex-governor to enter his defence if he so desires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The judge, therefore, ordered El-Rufai, the sole defendant in the charge, to enter his defence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the the defendant had opted for a no-case submission after the DSS closed its case by calling two witnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El-Rufai, through his counsel, Akinyemi Aremu, had urged the court to hold that the prosecution had failed to establish a case requiring the former governor to enter a defence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In response, the DSS lawyer, Oluwole Aladedoye, SAN, adopted their counter affidavit in opposition to the no-case submission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aladedoye argued that the defence failed to address Exhibit \u201cB\u201d, which the prosecution said contained El-Rufai\u2019s alleged admission concerning the tapping of Ribadu\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He submitted that since the prosecution had established a prima facie case against El-Rufai, the defendant was required by law to enter his defence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(NAN)<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/10\/alleged-phone-tapping-court-rejects-el-rufais-no-case-submission\/\">Alleged phone-tapping: Court rejects El-Rufai\u2019s no-case submission<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday dismissed a no-case submission filed by former Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State in his ongoing trial over alleged unlawful interception of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}