DSS arrests PDP’s Sen Abaribe

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senator and a fierce critic of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government from Abia State, Enyinnaya Abaribe, has been arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS).

The senator, a former deputy governor of Abia State, was allegedly picked up on Friday, June 22, at his barber’s shop in the Apo area of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.
Though the reason for his arrest is still unknown, Abaribe is one of those who stood as surety for leader of the Indigenous People’s of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu who has gone missing.

The news of the senator’s arrest was made public by his special adviser, Nwokoma Okorie.

It was not yet clear why the South-East senator, who remains one of fiercest critics of President Buhari’s administration was picked up.

His arrest is coming on the heels of the senator, who is the South-East Senate caucus chairman, expression of shock over the alleged cuts in the 2018 budget allocation for the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Terminal in Enugu State.

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The lawmaker and his colleagues from the South-East had recently claimed that they learnt that an allocation of N2 billion sustained by the two aviation committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, were said to have been slashed to N500 million.

Abaribe had noted that a meeting of lawmakers from the region has been fixed for them to find out at what point the cut was made and who was responsible.

Recall that a notable critic of Buhari in the Senate, Senator Dino Melaye, is currently being prosecuted by the Nigerian Police after the force arrested him over alleged gunrunning.

 

 

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