Fani-Kayode: I regret tweet on Atiku’s meeting with Army Generals

The Director of Special Projects and New Media of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, Femi Fani-Kayode, says he was grilled for five hours by the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) over his tweet on a purported meeting of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, with some Army Generals.

Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, said this while narrating his ordeal in the hands of the DSS in Abuja on Monday.

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.

The former minister told newsmen at the APC National Secretariat that he would return to the DSS on Wednesday, adding that he was also told to report once a week till the conclusion of investigation.

He stated that he has nothing to hide and was impressed by the professional manner in which the DSS operatives conducted themselves.

Fani-Kayode, however, said the five hours grilling was an experience he would not wish even his enemy to go through.

“Following my tweet, the PDP called for my arrest and detention, saying Atiku never met with the military Generals.

“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.

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Fani-Kayode further stated the DSS was not acting under any order.

“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.

Speaking on the development, the Director Media and Publicity, APC PCC, Bayo Onanuga, 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 stated.

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