Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have detained the former governor of Zamfara State and the Senator representing Zamfara West, Abdulaziz Yari, as the Senator has been grilled for days.
At the time of filing this report, the reason for his detention and interrogation is not clear yet to MUK TV.
According to a source close to the lawmaker, Yari reported at the office of the secret police after plenary on Thursday last week.
The source claimed that he escorted the lawmaker to the DSS office to honour its invitation.
“Senator Yari is still in the DSS custody, but he should be out soon in sha ’Allah. He went to their office himself after the plenary. I escorted him there and he has been there since then,” the source said.
He, however, did not disclose why the lawmaker was invited by the security agency.
However, Peoples Gazette, an online publication, had earlier reported that Yari was arrested by the secret police after receiving a call from the Director-General, Yusuf Bichi, to report at the DSS headquarters for an urgent discussion.
The lawmaker’s mobile phone has been switched off and efforts to contact him by our correspondents proved abortive.
Recall that Senator Yari attempted to usurp the zoning arrangement of the All Progressives Congress for the presiding officers of the National Assembly by contesting the Senate presidency against the party’s choice, Senator Godswill Akpabio, who eventually won the epic battle on June 13, defeating Yari with a seventeen-vote margin.
