What #DSS Did To Fani-Kayode For 5 Hours After Raising Coup Alarm—The Director of Special Projects and New Media of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC), Femi Fani-Kayode, has said he regrets raising alarm over an alleged impending coup.
Mr Fani-Kayode was on Monday summoned by the Department of State Services (DSS) over his tweet on a purported meeting of a presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, with some military officers to plot a coup.
Speaking with reporters at the APC National Secretariat after his time with the DSS, the APC chieftain said he was interrogated for five hours.
Fani-Kayode, also a former Minister of Aviation under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, said he would return to the DSS on Wednesday.
He added that he was also told to report once a week till the conclusion of investigation.
According to him, he has nothing to hide and was impressed by the professional manner in which the DSS personnel conducted themselves.
“Following my tweet, the PDP called for my arrest and detention, saying Atiku never met with the military generals.
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“While I was with the DSS, they were very thorough and inquisitive and very professional in their approach, they were polite, reasonable and rational.
“In spite of the ordeal, I felt I was being treated very fairly and that I wasn’t being oppressed,” he said.
Fani-Kayode also said it was clear that the DSS was not acting under any order.
He added that he regretted some of the things he said in the tweet, which according to him, sent shock waves to some individuals who got hurt by it and brought the appropriate authority to action.
“I spent about five hours. I was subjected to thorough grilling; they were very thorough and highly professional in their interrogation, and I was asked to come back on Wednesday for further interrogation.
“The place anybody wouldn’t want to go, I think is the DSS. If I were to do it a second time, I won’t tweet this same way,” Fani-Kayode said.
Director of Media and Publicity, APC PCC, Bayo Onanuga, while reacting to the development, said they were all worried when they heard that Fani-Kayode was invited by the DSS for interrogation.
“So we contacted our lawyers and our lawyers followed him to the DSS headquarters.
“If he was detained beyond today, we would have challenged it, we would have taken further steps, but he said the DSS officials were very professional,” Onanuga said.
