Former Governor of Kaduna State Nasir El-Rufai has blamed National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu for the attempt by security agencies to arrest him on Thursday.

MyNigeria reported that El-Rufai was almost arrested at the airport on arrival from Cairo, Egypt.

His passport was seized by security agencies, whom he said had no warrant to show for his arrest.

He said operatives of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, working with the Department of State Services, DSS, and not the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, confronted him at the airport and attempted to take him into custody.

“It turned out that it’s the ICPC that procured DSS to abduct me and hades me over to them. The ICPC has never invited me.

“We just understand that it’s the ICPC not EFCC that’s responsible for what happened today and the ICPC chairman is acting of the direct order of Nuhu Ribadu,” El-Rufai said.