The Department of State Services (DSS), says Senator Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara West was not invited because he allegedly refused to answer President Bola Tinubu’s calls.
A recent claim that the DSS apprehended and arrested Yari after he allegedly ignored President Tinubu’s calls in June.
According to the allegation, the president called the former governor of Zamfara to put pressure on him to abandon his plans to run for 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.”
