Abdulaziz Yari, Senator representing Zamfara West and former governor of the state, has been released by the Department of State Services (DSS).
According to reports, Senator Yari was freed Friday night about 11 p.m. after being arrested and questioned by DSS agents.
Remember that Yari, who ran for Senate President, visited the DSS office on Thursday and was held as a result.
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According to Peoples Gazette, Yari was arrested after President Bola Tinubu made several phone calls to his lines last month following the Senate President of the National Assembly battle.
According to one senior security officer and a State House staffer, the DSS detained Yari on Thursday morning for “thinking the president is a joke,” as one official put it.
“He was asked why he ignored the president’s phone calls during the Senate leadership battle,” an official said.
“He started arguing that he has every right to contest for the position and decisions about his political career moves should not come from the president.
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“The president was trying to appeal to him to stand down his ambition to make sure any fate similar to how Bukola Saraki became Senate President in 2015 won’t be repeated.
“We all knew that Saraki’s emergence back then was the first error President Buhari made, and it crippled his first four years in office,” the official allegedly told Gazette.
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