{"id":50473,"date":"2018-10-09T09:43:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T08:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=50473"},"modified":"2018-10-09T09:44:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T08:44:19","slug":"apc-senator-marafa-speaks-on-being-arrested-by-dss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=50473","title":{"rendered":"APC Senator, Marafa speaks on being arrested by DSS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Senator representing Zamfara Central, Kabir Marafa, has said he was not arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS.<\/p>\n

Reports had it that Marafa was arrested by DSS operatives at a hotel in Gusau, the state capital, over the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election in Zamfara.<\/p>\n

In a statement by his media aide, Abubakar Umar, the lawmaker described the claim of his arrest as a \u201cwicked lie concocted by agents of darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement reads, \u201cMy attention has been drawn to malicious reports that I have been arrested.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is nothing but a wicked lie concocted by agents of darkness and blood thirsty politicians who are hellbent on scuttling the wishes of the Zamfara people through the backdoor.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a law abiding lawmaker, I will continue to conduct my political activities as usual within the confine of the law, no matter the provocation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawmaker alleged that despite the \u201cdesperation\u201d by the governor, he has succeeded in leading the most peaceful campaign which is reason he enjoys \u201cmassive support\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thank Almighty Allah for the massive support we are enjoying from the people of the state. I sincerely appreciate and I won\u2019t let them down.<\/p>\n

\u201cInsha Allah, if elected, I will work hard to address the challenges bedeviling the state,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Senator representing Zamfara Central, Kabir Marafa, has said he was not arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS. Reports had it that Marafa was arrested by DSS operatives at a hotel in Gusau, the state capital, over the All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election in Zamfara. In a statement by his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5905],"class_list":["post-50473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-marafa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}