DSS Detain, Release Falake, Late Abubakar’s Son
The Department of State Security (DSS), on Saturday detained the Deputy Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the November 21, 2015 governorship election in Kogi State, Hon. James Faleke, and Mohammed, the eldest son of Abubakar Audu, the late APC governorship candidate, Abubakar Audu, for over seven hour before they were let go around 9pm.
The duo had honoured an invitation by Nigeria’s domestic secret police for undisclosed reason, and then detained.
The Director, Media and Publicity of Audu/Faleke Campaign Organisation, Duro Meseko, who raised the alarm in a statement, said Falake and Mohammed arrived the DSS headquarters in Abuja at exactly 10.00am and were kept in an office with assurances that an officer would attend to them only to keep them indefinitely.
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Mr. Meseko said the two politicians were kept in an isolated office till 4p.m on Saturday evening.
He said, “I’m surprised my principal and the eldest son of our political leader, Mohammed are still being kept as I speak with you which is 4pm. What could be responsible for this ill treatment by the SSS?
“Or could they be acting the intimidation script? Trying to arms-twist them into abandoning the sacred mandate freely given to the Audu/Faleke team by the generality of Kogi people?
“Let me make it abundantly clear that our mandate is sacred and no amount of of technical detention, intimidation and harassment would shake our resolve to get justice through the judiciary.
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“I refuse to believe that the presidency has hands in the arrest! But we may not rule out the fact that the power that be must have wielded their influence in the arrest, but we are not not pertubed over the development, because we believe that God ultimately vindicate us.”
Faleke was running mate to the late Audu in the November 21, 2015 gubernatorial election that was declared inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The running mate has been having disagreement with the APC for bypassing him and picking Yahaya Bello, the governorship candidate who was drafted in after the death of Audu.
Some Nigerians have expressed worry over the active involvement of the DSS in purely political matters.
