Femi Fani-Kayode, a prominent member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), asserted that the Department of State Services prevented attempts to undermine Nigeria’s democracy when President Muhammadu Buhari was in office.
In a statement released on Monday, the former minister of aviation addressed a charge made against Yusuf Magaji Bichi, the director general of the DSS.
Jackson Ude, a well-known X user, had claimed that the DSS DG had embezzled a subsidy grant intended for service personnel.
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Peter Afunanya, the service’s director of public relations and strategic communications, refuted the report, claiming that the agency had not been given any funding of such kind.
Speaking on the matter, Fani-Kayode claimed that “had it not been for Bichi and his DSS, Boko Haram and ISWAP would have taken Abuja years ago, and democracy may well have been brought to an end by mutinous soldiers during the tenure of @MBuhari”.
He challenged Ude to “come to Nigeria and go to the courts to prove all he has said against a hard-working & decent man and a dedicated servant of the Nigerian state.
“If he chooses to come, once on Nigerian soil, I will personally guarantee his safety”.
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He said the DSS boss “in collaboration with the leadership of the other intelligence agencies and the military of those days, exposed and thwarted many coup attempts and ensured that the Islamist terrorists were repelled and contained”.
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