DSS: We did not arrest Yari for not picking Tinubu’s call

DSS: We did not arrest Yari for not picking Tinubu’s call

The Department of State Services (DSS) has refuted a claim that it arrested Senator Abdulaziz Yari for allegedly refusing to pick President Bola Tinubu’s telephone call.

Yari contested and lost the recent election to lead the Senate. He lost to Senator Godswill Akpabio, supported by Tinubu.

The service also denied storming the offices of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) and Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and carting away certain documents.

The DSS in a statement on Sunday by its spokesman, Dr Peter Afunanya, said the reports were aimed at causing disaffection in the country as well as disparaging the leadership of the service.

It stated, “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.”

The statement also said, “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.”