The Department of State Services, DSS, on Thursday arraigned former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai for allegedly accessing the telephone conversation of Nuhu Ribadu, national security adviser, NSA.
El-Rufai is being prosecuted on a five-count amended charge before the Abuja Federal High Court.
The prosecution informed the court at the commencement of proceedings that the charge had been amended from three to five counts.
Consequently, the presiding judge, Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, struck out the previous count.
El-Rufai pleaded not guilty to the five-count amended charge.
The former FCT minister had, in February, during an interview on Arise Television’s Prime Time, said “someone wiretapped” Ribadu’s phone, allowing him to listen to the NSA instructing security operatives to effect his arrest.
