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.
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 about the situation, Fani-Kayode asserted that “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” if it weren’t for Bichi and his DSS.
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Ude was issued a challenge by him to “travel to Nigeria and appear in court to prove everything he has said against a decent, hardworking man who is also a committed servant of the Nigerian state.”
“I personally guarantee his safety once he steps foot on Nigerian soil, should he choose to come.”
According to him, the head of the DSS “ensured that the Islamist terrorists were repelled and contained and exposed and thwarted many coup attempts in collaboration with the leadership of the other intelligence agencies and the military of those days.”
