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<\/p>\nOshiomhole, speaking with editors in Lagos, insisted that he saw DSS once and had conversation with them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not an arrest or detention\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
His words, \u201cThe conversation centered around APC primaries. The question now is whether or not it is the DSS job to interfere in a political party\u2019s issues. And if there\u2019s an allegation of corruption, it is the responsibility of EFCC and ICPC.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oshiomhole dismissed the rumour that DSS rescheduled another meeting with him.<\/p>\n
The former Edo state governor also said he was not released on administrative bail, adding that the Governor of Kogi, Yahaya Bello, did not come to pick him up from the DSS office.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was the one who called Yahaya Bello and he came but I drove home in my own car.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reacting on the Peoples Democratic Party\u2019s call for his arrest, Oshiomhole said, \u201cWhat would they have said if it was the PDP chairman that was invited by DSS, for instance over the dollar bazaar at their Port Harcourt primary?<\/p>\n
\u201cThey would have said democracy is under threat and would have fired a letter to the UN as they often ridicule themselves.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has denied that he was arrested, detained and granted administrative bail by the Department of State Services (DSS), after nine hours of interrogation. Oshiomhole, speaking with editors in Lagos, insisted that he saw DSS once and had conversation with them. \u201cIt was not an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9112,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5734,29],"class_list":["post-60280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-adams-oshimhole","tag-apc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60280","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=60280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}