2023 elections: DSS Invites Fani-Kayode Over Alleged Coup Plot By Military, Atiku
- The spokesman of the APC's presidential campaign council, Femi Fani-Kayode, has been invited for questioning by the DSS
- This invitation came days after Fani-Kayode spoke on an alleged plot by some military officers and Atiku Abubakar to stage a coup before the elections
- Via his Facebook page on Monday, February 13, Fani-Kayode said he will be honouring the security agency's invitation
The Department of State Services (DSS) has invited a spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress (APC)'s presidential campaign council, Femi Fani-Kayode, over allegations of a coup plot ahead of the February election.
The development was confirmed via Facebook on Monday, February 13, by Fani Kayode who said he will honour the DSS' invitation.
Source: UGC
In a statement on the social media platform, FFK as he is fondly called said:
“Three days ago, on the day that I tweeted about newspaper reports alleging that Atiku was secretly meeting with Army Generals, I got a text message from someone who claimed to be DSS asking me to report to them on a matter of national security.
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“I dismissed the invitation because it was vague and I was not sure whether it really came from the DSS. In any case I had no intention of going anywhere unless I was formally invited. To my surprise I received a formal letter from them to report to their office without fail 2 days later, which was yesterday evening.
“I put a call through to them & was advised to take the matter very seriously & report to them on the stipulated day and time otherwise the worse may happen.
“Unlike cowards like Emefiele, Atiku and their strange bedfellows, I do not fear my own shadow and neither do I shiver and shake when I am invited by the security agencies. I always honour their invitations when properly invited because that is the right and proper thing to do.
“This is all the more so when it touches and concerns matters of national security which I take very seriously & when it involves agencies like the DSS who are professional and thorough in their methods and approach.
“I have nothing to hide and consequently I will present myself before the DSS this morning as I have been asked to do.
“I maintain my utter contempt for Atiku & the vermin that are around him & no matter what happens to me today or at any other time, know that as long as there is life in me I will oppose the darkness & evil that they represent.”
Coup allegation: Atiku angry, asks DSS, police to invite Fani-Kayode for explanation
Atiku had called on the Department of State Services, the Nigeria Police Force and other security agencies to invite the Director of Special Projects and New media of the Tinubu/Shettima presidential campaign Council, Femi Fani-Kayode, and explain his allegations and insinuations of an attempted coup being planned by Atiku and top generals.
Special Assistant, Public Communications to Atiku, Phrank Shaibu, said this in a statement made available to Legit.ng on Sunday, February 11, while reacting to a tweet by Fani-Kayode that Atiku met with top army generals with a possible plan to scuttling the election or perpetrating a coup, an offence which attracts the death penalty.
What Shaibu said
“Ordinarily, we wouldn’t have bothered responding to Fani-Kayode who has over the years built a reputation of being an inveterate liar so much so that he was even publicly blacklisted by the Nigeria Union of Journalists after his disgraceful outburst at a journalist."
Source: Legit.ng
