SSS Admits Arresting Ganduje’s Aide, Yakasai, Who Called For Buhari’s Resignation

The State Security Services has confirmed that it actually did apprehend Salihu Tanko Yakasai, a former aide of Kano governor Abdullahi Ganduje.

The confirmation is sequel to palpable trepidation that gripped the public following the denial by the Kano office of the SSS that it had nothing to do with the sudden disappearance of  Yakasai.

The whereabouts of Mr. Yakasai who was picked in a Gestapo style became a subject of public discourse  as the government initially kept mum on the arrest.

Commentators on social media feared that Mr. Yakasai could also become incommunicado just like another critic of government, Abubakar Idris, popularly known as Dadiyata who was reportedly picked by state agents and his whereabouts remaining unknown 574 days after.

However, a statement by Peter Afunanya, SSS spokesman, on Saturday evening has now announced that the APC faithful-turned-critic is in the custody.

“This is to confirm that Salihu Tanko-Yakasai is with the Department of State Services. He is being investigated over issues beyond the expression of opinions in the social media as wrongly alleged by sections of the public,” the statement reads.

Yakasai had called for the resignation of the President Muhammadu Buhari led APC government over perennial insecurity in the wake of the abduction of over 300 female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in Zamfara.

The tweet that spurred government’s arrest of Yakasai read: “Clearly, we as APC government, at all levels, have failed Nigerians in the number 1 duty we were elected to do which is to secure lives & properties. Not a single day goes by without some sort of insecurity in this land. This is a shame! Deal with terrorists decisively or resign.”

While the whereabouts of Yakasai was yet to be ascertained, Ganduje relieved him of his duty as his aide, with his traducers seizing the moment to hurl derisive remarks at him over his previous defence of the oppressive disposition of his boss.

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