Mike Ejiofor, a former Director of the Department of State
Services, DSS, has given a reason why the security agency did not arrest the
Labour Party vice presidential candidate, Datti Baba-Ahmed, over his recent
comment.
Ejiofor said Baba-Ahmed was not arrested by the DSS because
the security agency has not had any concrete evidence to invite him.
Datti had, during an interview with Channels Television,
said swearing in the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on May 29 may be the
end of democracy in Nigeria.
Datti’s comment generated controversy across Nigeria as some
supporters of Tinubu demanded his arrest.
Speaking on the matter, Ejiofor, while appearing on Arise TV
on Friday, said: “For the vice president of the labour party, I listened to his
interview, and since it has gone viral, he made a personal statement which he
is entitled to. But if he goes ahead, I believe that the SSS, if they have any
evidence of pursuing that to its logical conclusion, action will be taken
because nobody is above the law.
“In fact, this morning, as I was going through my WhatsApp
messages, I also saw a similar thing attributed to the former vice-president in
2015, it was in Channels Television, Seun Okinbaloye, when he was asking a
similar question when they said that they would form a parallel government then
the government did not do anything.
“So why this particular one? I can tell you that the SSS
would continue to monitor events as they unfold, and anybody, no matter how
highly placed or how old you are, would be brought before the law. I believe
the vice presidential candidate made a statement, and the SSS has not had any
concrete evidence. I am expressing my opinion to have invited him; otherwise,
they would have invited him.
“You recall what I told you earlier? The statement is also
credited to the former vice president and the statement made by the SSS warning
politicians to desist from the issue of the interim government because the
interim government is not only unconstitutional, it is illegal. So if the SSS
had come to arrest either the Labour Party vice presidential candidate, you
know, the conflagration it would have also brought to the country. So we manage
our sensibility and see how we can handle this without compromising the
standard of security.”
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