A former Director of the Department of State Services (DSS), Mike Ejiofor, has explained why the agency has not arrested Datti Baba-Ahmed over his recent comment.
Ejiofor says Baba-Ahmed was not arrested because the secret police does not have any concrete evidence to invite him.
The End Of Democracy
Datti in an interview on Channel TV had said the swearing-in of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu on May 29 may be the end of democracy in Nigeria.
The statement of the vice presidential candidate of the LP generated controversy across Nigeria with some supporters of Tinubu calling for his arrest.
The Law
Ejiofor was on Arise TV on Friday and he says “for the vice presidential candidate of the labour party, I listened to his interview, and since it has gone viral, he made a personal statement which he is entitled to.
“But if he goes ahead, I believe that the SSS, if they have any evidence of pursuing that to its logical conclusion, action will be taken because nobody is above the law.
“In fact, this morning, as I was going through my WhatsApp messages, I also saw a similar thing attributed to the former vice-president in 2015.
“It was in Channels Television, Seun Okinbaloye when he was asking a similar question when they said that they would form a parallel government then the government did not do anything.
Why This One?
“So why this particular one?
“I can tell you that the SSS would continue to monitor events, as they unfold.
“And anybody, no matter how highly placed or how old you are, would be brought before the law.
“I believe the vice presidential candidate made a statement, and the DSS has not had any concrete evidence.
“I am expressing my opinion to have invited him; otherwise, they would have invited him.
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“You recall what I told you earlier? The statement is also credited to the former vice president and the statement made by the DSS warning politicians to desist from the issue of the interim government because the interim government is not only unconstitutional, it is illegal.
“So if the DSS had come to arrest either the Labour Party vice presidential candidate, you know, the conflagration it would have also brought to the country.
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“So we manage our sensibility and see how we can handle this without compromising the standard of security.”
