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| APC slams DSS for linking party with Boko Haram |
| 2014-08-18 |
| [DAILYPOST.NG] The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned what it called the thinly-veiled attempt by the Directorate of Security Service (DSS) to link the party with the holy warrior group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , without providing a shred of evidence to that effect, and called on the agency's spokesperson Marilyn Ogar to resign or be fired. In a statement issued in Ilorin on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also said it has decided to sue Ogar for attempting to blame the APC for the series of kabooms in the country, to give her the opportunity to present whatever evidence she may have of the APC 's complicity in a court of law. It said the DSS threw caution to the wind and exhibited its crass partisanship when the agency's spokesperson, Ogar, said on national television that anytime the APC wins an election, there is no kaboom, but that whenever other parties win, there is always a kaboom. "That this incredulous accusation could be made by the spokesperson of a security agency, without providing a scintilla of evidence to support such claim, has confirmed our fears that the nation's security agencies have now constituted themselves into the enforcement arm of the PDP. "For the DSS Spokesperson to echo the same capricious statement that has been made in the past by the front man of the PDP shows that the agency has dropped its toga of non-partisanship and has descended into the political fray. If the DSS has any professional ethics, if DSS is not an arm of the PDP, then the agency must publicly dissociate itself from the irresponsible and unfounded allegation by Ogar and disengage her from the service. |
| Posted by:Fred |