Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the APC National Chairman has opened up on his invitation by men of the DSS and what transpired while he was in their office.
Oshiomhole, who met with Editors in Lagos, after his return from London described his engagement with the DSS officers as a “conversation” and not an “arrest” or “detention.”
The Chairman was said to have visited his wife, who is ill, in the United States and later met with the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in London.
“The conversation centred around APC primaries. The question now is whether or not it is the DSS job to interfere in a political party’s issues. And if there’s an allegation of corruption, it is the responsibility of EFCC and ICPC,” the former Edo State governor said.
He dismissed the rumor that the DSS rescheduled another meeting with him after the initial one. He also denied the report that he was released on administrative bail by the Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, saying he only invited the governor who showed up where he had interaction with the DSS officials.
“I was the one who called Yahaya Bello and he came, but I drove home in my own car,” he said.
On the call for his arrest by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he said: “what would they have said if it was the PDP chairman that was invited by the DSS, for instance, over the dollar bazaar at their Port Harcourt primary? They would have said democracy is under threat and would have fired a letter to the UN, as they often ridicule themselves”.
His “arrest” and subsequent “detention” was said to have been orchestrated by some aggrieved party leaders, many of whom are sitting governors, wherein their preferred aspirants failed to win the party’s tickets for various positions.
Oshiomhole suddenly left the country on Tuesday after interrogation for hours by the Department of State Services (DSS) last Sunday and Monday.
On the report that the DSS wanted to compel him to resign, he said it was not the responsibility of the service to do so, adding that he is not answerable to them.
