The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC) frowned at a new invitation by the Police to its Director of New Media, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode over a matter currently investigated by the Department of State Services (DSS).
The former Minister of Aviation was grilled on Monday by the DSS for about five hours over a tweet of an alleged meeting a presidential candidate had with some military top brass in Abuja.
He is asked to return for further interrogation by the DSS.
But on Tuesday night the Federal Investigation Bureau of the Police sent him an invitation.
In a statement released Wednesday in Abuja, by the APC PCC Director of Media and Publicity, Bayo Onanuga asked the Police to allow DSS to complete its work and leave the former Minister alone.
The statement reads: “Despite the well-publicized invitation of Chief Femi Fani-Kayode by the DSS and the report that the secret police asked him to return for further investigation today, we were surprised that the police have also jumped into the same matter.
“On Tuesday the AIG Federal Investigation Bureau also invited Fani-Kayode for questioning.
“The APC-PCC is concerned about the latest invitation by another security agency, just some 10 days to the election when he is most needed as our director of New Media.
“While we are not questioning the authority of the police to invite our official, we want the police to be mindful that the truth they seek to find is already being pursued by the DSS.
“They should allow the DSS to complete its investigation.”
Onanuga recalled that Fani-Kayode upon his first interview by the DSS, described the agency as “very professional”, in the way the operatives grilled him on a tweet accusing one of the opposition leaders of cooking something with the military authorities.
“The DSS at the meeting made it clear to him that the basis of his tweet, a newspaper report, was not correct.
“Fani-Kayode will have another round of grilling by the DSS today.”
The campaign council demanded that the police should allow the investigation to go its full course so that they do not open themselves to suspicions that they were implementing an agenda scripted by the opposition.
It maintained”Chief Fani-Kayode is a respected Nigerian and had served his country as minister of aviation. He will be available any time to answer for his actions.”
