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.
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 and Code of Conduct Bureau .
“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.
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