The All Progressives Congress, APC has warned the Department of State Security, DSS against arresting its chairman in Borno. The party, through a statement by its national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said that it was aware that the party’s chairman in Borno, Hon Ali Abubakar Dalori has been penciled down for arrest on trumped up charges by the DSS.
The party advised the DSS to desist from partisan politics and concentrate on its constitutionally assigned roll.
”We have it on good authority that with the recent movement of Ali Modu Sheriff to the PDP, attempts are being made to destabilize the APC in Borno, using agencies of state like the DSS. The take-off point is the arrest of our Chairman in the state on trumped-up charges.
”Let those who are seeking to trigger a crisis in Borno know that the people of the state are resolute in their determination to ensure a level playing field in the run-up to the 2015 election. It is curious that the DSS has suddenly unearthed supposed offences committed by Hon Ali Abubakar Dalori to warrant his arrest, now that Sheriff has defected to the PDP.
”Again, we are compelled to warn the DSS that, as an organ of state, it cannot afford to be partisan. An agency being sustained by the taxpayers cannot turn around to hunt the same taxpayers. An agency that is supposed to protect the people of Nigeria cannot be the same agency being used to witch-hunt the opposition.
”Unless the DSS turns a new leaf and stop making itself a tool in the hands of politicians, the agency will ridicule itself and weaken its capacity to function effectively,” APC said.
