The National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has said his recent
meeting with the Department of State Services, DSS, was a mere routine
conversation that held in the interest of national security.
He made this claim on Sunday
while appearing on Channels TV’s political programme, Sunday Politics, anchored
by Seun Okinbaloye.
Several media outlets had
reported that the APC national chairman was grilled by the DSS over alleged
bribe-taking and gross misconduct during the ruling party’s recent primaries.
Dismissing the reports as false,
Oshiomhole said: “I met with the DSS on Sunday at about 3pm and I drove there
on my own.
“I have been having meeting with
the DG of SSS, both the current one and the previous one. It is not unusual
that they want to find out what is going on.
“We share with them what we know
and, sometimes, they share with us what they hear. I believe it is in the
interest of the national security.
“We (have) met a couple of times
to discuss issues that have to do with the country and our party.”
On his reported coercion by the
DSS for him to resign as the APC national chairman, Oshiomhole said: “I wasn’t
hired by the DSS and I cannot be requested by the DSS to resign or to retain
the job.
“APC is a structured. We have
organs. I know the processes and procedures. I believe the DSS also understand
their own role in the system.
“It is not up to them to the
demand the resignation of a party chairman. But, I believe it is their right to
have a conversation with anybody who in their opinion can assist them in
discharging their mandate of ensuring that Nigeria is safe and secure,
particularly as we move towards 2019.”
On his meeting with President
Muhammadu Buhari after his reported grilling by the DSS, he said: “The
President is the President of Nigeria. He is elected on the platform of our
party of which I am privileged currently to be the chairman.
“I visit the Villa two or three
times a week. I have the duty to brief Mr. President on what we are doing in
the party. We also have the privilege of learning from the President what the
govt is doing as it relates to what the party expects of the government elected
on our platform.
“So, meeting the president is not
news at all. These are my privileges. I think it will continue to be so as long
as the President is gracious enough to give me those privileges and also to
hear my own suggestions on variety of issues as they relate to and affect
governance, our party, and our country.”
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