Senator Yari Invited for Refusing to Pick President Tinubu's Call? DSS Finally Breaks Silence
- The DSS has denied the report that the service arrested Senator Abdulaziz Yari for refusing to pick up President Bola Tinubu's telephone call
- According to the statement by the DSS, Yari knew the reason why he was arrested and detained in the service's custody
- Yari contested for the position of Senate President against the arrangement of the APC leadership and its preferred candidate, Godswill Akpabio
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FCT, Abuja - The Department of State Service (DSS) has described the claim by some online media, not legit.ng, that the service arrested Senator Abdulaziz Yari from Zamfara because he refused to pick up President Bola Tinubu's phone calls as "the height of junk journalism".
This was disclosed in a statement by the DSS on its Twitter page on Sunday, July 9, adding that the report was far from having any iota of fact.
Source: UGC
Yari knows why he was arrested, DSS reveals
Yari was alleged to have visited the office of the DSS on Thursday, July 6, for an undisclosed reason and has been detained by the secret police since then.
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But the DSS, in a statement, denied the report that the service had arrested the former governor of Zamfara State because he refused to pick the President's call, adding that it was fake news and the public should ignore it.
Recall that the Senator went against the arrangement of the All Progressives Congress (APC) when he contested for the position of the Senate President with Godswill Akpabio, the endorsed candidate of the ruling party's leadership.
DSS slams media report on the arrest of Senator Yari
Akpabio further went ahead to become the victor of the poll for the president of the Red Chamber.
The statement reads in part:
"It is petty, if not laughable, to report that Yari was invited for refusing to pick, so-called the President’s call. This is the height of junk journalism. Yari knows why he was invited."
See the tweet here:
“They have the list already": Source reveals Tinubu's ministerial list with DSS
Legit.ng earlier reported that President Bola Tinubu's ministerial list is reportedly ready and is undergoing a final security check with the DSS.
The names of those being considered for ministerial nominees were also going through a final check at the Presidential Strategic Team team before being forwarded to the senate.
President Tinubu is expected to forward the names of the ministers to the Senate on or before July 28, according to the law.
Source: Legit.ng
