Mike Ejiofor a former Director of the Department of State Service(DSS) has explained why Datti Baba-Ahmed was not arrested .
NAIJA NEWS NG reports that Mike Ejiofor who spoke on Arise TV on Friday said the reason Datti was not invited by the secret police is lack of concrete evidence against the Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate.
You would recall that Datti in an interview on Channel TV said the swearing-in of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu on May 29 whom he said didn’t get the constitutional requirments to be President, may be the end of democracy in Nigeria.
After the statement many Bola Tinubu’s supporters called for Datti’s arrest .
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Ejiofor, speaking on Arise TV on Friday, said, “For the vice president 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.
“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 SSS has not had any concrete evidence. I am expressing my opinion to have invited him; otherwise, they would have invited him.
“You recall what I told you earlier? The statement is also credited to the former vice president and the statement made by the SSS 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 SSS had come to arrest either the Labour Party vice presidential candidate, you know, the conflagration it would have also brought to the country. So we manage our sensibility and see how we can handle this without compromising the standard of security.”
