The Department of State Services (DSS) has invited the Director of New Media, APC Presidential Campaign Council, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode over his claim of a coup plot ahead of the forthcoming general election.
Fani-Kayode, who is a former Minister of Aviation, confirmed the DSS invitation in a statement on Monday.
The ex-minister said he would honour the secret police’s invitation.
Fani-Kayode had tweeted last week that some senior army personnel met with some politicians, including the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in a bid to scuttle the February 25 presidential election.
The APC chieftain claimed that the meeting could be part of a plot to trigger a military coup and forcefully take over the government.
However, the Acting Director of Defence Information, Brig.-Gen. Tukur Gusau, debunked the coup claim and advised Nigerians to disregard Fani-Kayode’s tweets.
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“The Armed Forces of Nigeria will never be part of any ignoble plot to truncate our hard-earned democracy,” the defence spokesman said.
In his Monday statement, Fani-Kayode said, “Three days ago, on the day that I tweeted about newspaper reports alleging that Atiku was secretly meeting with Army Generals, I received a text message from someone who claimed to be a DSS officer asking me to report to them on a matter of national security.
“I dismissed the invitation because it was vague and I was not sure whether it really came from the DSS.
“In any case I had no intention of going anywhere unless I was formally invited.
“To my surprise I received a formal letter from them to report to their office without fail two days later, which was yesterday evening.
“I put a call through to them and was advised to take the matter very seriously and report to them on the stipulated day and time otherwise the worse may happen.
“I found it interesting that a call came from one of Atiku’s dogs for me to be arrested by the security agencies yesterday and had it not been for the fact that the DSS had actually sent a text to me two days earlier I may have thought that they were acting on the instructions of what can only be described as a hopeless and desperate presidential candidate, opposition party and PCC who are clutching at straws, drowning fast, seeking to silence those that give them sleepless nights, shivering in despair and staring defeat in the face in the upcoming presidential election.
“Clearly the DSS were not influenced by Atiku and were simply doing their job by inviting me on a matter that needs explanation and clarification and for a thorough interrogation .
“And of course being a responsible and law abiding citizen I will present myself before them accordingly.
“Unlike cowards like Emefiele, Atiku and their strange bedfellows I do not fear my own shadow and neither do I shiver and shake when I am invited by the security agencies.
“I always honor their invitations when properly invited because that is the right and proper thing to do.
“This is all the more so when it touches and concerns matters of national security which I take very seriously and when it involves agencies like the DSS who are professional and thorough in their methods and approach.
“I have nothing to hide and consequently I will present myself before the DSS this morning as I have been asked to do.”
Fani-Kayode said he is “used to arrest, interrogation, detention, prosecution and so much more and have suffered these indignities on many occassions over the last 15 years.
“I have no fear: nothing moves me and only death can silence me.
“The most important thing now is not what happens to me but rather achieving the noble quest to ensure the election of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as our next President.”