“Yari knows Why He Was Invited” –  DSS; Says “He Was Not  Arrested Over Refusal To Take Tinubu’s Phone Call”

The Department of State Services (DSS) has put a lie to story making the rounds that it arrested the former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, over his refusal to take a phone call placed to him by President Bola Tinubu.

Yari was invited on Thursday, and later released over an undisclosed issue.

Neither the Service nor Yari has disclosed why exactly the former Zamfara State Governor was arrested.

But recall that Yari insisted on contesting for the office of the Senate President even when the President and the Party, APC, had settled for Senator Godswill Akpabio, and appealed to other contestants to step down.

A few days before Yari was invited by the DSS, speculations were rife that he and over 25 APC Senators had concluded plans to dump the Party for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP after which he would replace Akpabio as the Senate President.

However, the  DSS, in a statement published on its Twitter handle, dismissed the allegations against it as lies from the pit of hell, and a plot by a section of online medium to tarnish its image.

In the past few days, a number of stories, mainly false and planted, have been circulating against the DSS and its leadership.

Part of the DSS statement reads:

“The attention of the Department of State Services (DSS) has been drawn to false reports by sections of the online media particularly SaharaReporters, Peoples Gazette and Jackson Ude.

The so called news platforms variously and wrongly fed the public with misleading narratives and accusations against the Service.

“For instance, SaharaReporters wrote that the Service stormed the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and carted away certain files from them.

“Jackson Ude falsely claimed that there is a rumble in the DSS due to nepotism. He further accused the Service of snooping on Judges on the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.

“On its part, Peoples Gazette reported that Senator Abdulaziz Yari was arrested for alleged refusal to pick the President’s phone call (whatever that meant). There are other variants of unsubstantiated and anonymous petitions flying around against the DGSS, his family and some officials.

“The Service ordinarily would not have responded to these inaccuracies but for the fickle minded and vulnerable persons as well as the unsuspecting public that may take the lies for facts.

“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. 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.”