A former minister of aviation and All Progressives Congress (APC ) chieftain, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, said he was grilled for five hours by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) over his tweet alleging a coup plot meeting of the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, with some military officers.
Fani-Kayode who is the Director of Special Projects and New Media of the APC Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC), said this while narrating his ordeal in the hands of the DSS on Monday in Abuja.
Fani-Kayode said that he was also told to report once a week till the conclusion of investigation, adding that he would return to the DSS on Wednesday.
According to him, he has nothing to hide and was impressed by the professional manner in which the DSS personnel conducted themselves.
Fani-Kayode also said that the five hours grilling was an experience he would not wish even his enemy to go through.
He said that the DSS invited him to explain the Tweet he made concerning the PDP and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
“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.
Fani-Kayode also said it was clear that the DSS was not acting under any order.
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.
“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.
