PDP tenders evidence DSS DG is APC member

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday insisted that the new Director General of the Department of State Security (DSS), Mr. Lawal Daura, was a card-carrying member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and provided evidence to back its claim.

National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, who spoke to journalists in Abuja, described the statement issued by the spokesperson of the ruling party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed as regrettable.

Metuh said, “First we want to state it very clearly that we stand by the issues as expressed by the National Working Committee and personally presented by the national chairman himself.

“It is on record that he (Daura) was, although he is related to the president personally, the head of the Intelligence unit of the APC and a member of the APC,” he said.

To support the claim, PDP released photographs of Daura with other members of the APC Directorate of Security when they paid a courtesy call on Buhari after he won the presidential election.

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It also produced a roster showing Daura’s name, alongside others, under the Directorate of Security, of the APC presidential Campaign Committee.

Metuh said PDP believed that even if the president was free to appoint his relations to political offices, there are sensitive positions that by their very nature require people who are independent.

Metuh said his party will never reply to statements made by Mohammed, adding, “We invite Nigerians to look at the physical appearance of the spokesperson of the APC, it is clear that he came out of Aro-clinic for him to make that statement”.

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