The Department of State Services (DSS) says Abdulaziz Yari,
senator representing Zamfara west, was not invited over alleged refusal to
respond to telephone calls from President Bola Tinubu.
Recently, a report alleged that Yari was arrested and
detained by the DSS over the claim that he shunned Tinubu’s telephone calls in
June.
The report also claimed that the telephone call was
initiated by the president to pressure the former Zamfara governor to drop his
ambition to become the senate president.
However, in a statement on Sunday, Peter Afunanya, the DSS
spokesperson, said Yari knows why he was invited by the secret police, adding
that the online report about the former governor’s arrest is “laughable and
petty”.
Afunanya also denied the report that DSS operatives “carted
away” all incriminating files relating to Tinubu and his close aides from the
Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and
Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB).
“To set the records straight, the DSS did not execute
operations of any kind at the ICPC and CCB or remove files from their offices,”
the statement reads.
“Instructively, the two agencies have, on their own, refuted
the news in widely circulated press statements.
“It is petty, if not
laughable, to report that Yari was invited for refusing to pick the president’s
call. This is the height of junk journalism. Yari knows why he was invited.
“In fact, the service denies all the allegations as they
lack any factual basis or credibility. They are only figments of the creators’
imaginations.”
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