Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has given an insight on why he was quizzed by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).

TheCable on Friday reported that he was en route to Nigeria after visiting his indisposed wife, Iara, in the US, and subsequently meeting Bola Tinubu, APC national leader, in the UK.

The APC chairman travelled out of the country after he was interrogated by the DSS over allegations of collecting bribe during his party’s primary elections.

Speaking during an interaction with editors in Lagos on Saturday, Oshiomhole said he “saw DSS only once and it was a conversation, not an arrest or detention”.

He said: “The conversation centred around APC primaries. The question now is whether or not it is the DSS job to interfere in a political party’s issues. And if there’s an allegation of corruption, it is the responsibility of EFCC and ICPC.”

The former governor of Edo noted that the DSS did not ask him to return the next day, contrary to media reports.

Oshiomhole said he was billed to travel abroad on Monday but postponed the trip for a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. He said he eventually left the country on Tuesday.

Furthermore, the APC chairman said he was not released on administrative bail, adding that Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi, did not come to pick him up from the DSS office.

He said: “I was the one who called Yahaya Bello and he came but I drove home in my own car.”

Oshiomhole lashed out at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for calling on Interpol to arrest him, and for insinuating that he had fled the country over the matter.

He said: “What 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?

“They would have said democracy is under threat and would have fired a letter to the UN as they often ridicule themselves.”

The former labour leader alleged that “a few important members of APC may be conniving with PDP because they preferred the impunity of the PDP era”.

Governors Rochas Okorocha of Imo and Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun are aggrieved over the APC primaries. They blame Oshiomhole for their inability to get the gubernatorial tickets of the party for their preferred candidates.

Amosun has said he does not have a hand in Oshiomhole’s invitation by the DSS.

“What 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?

“They would have said democracy is under threat and would have fired a letter to the UN as they often ridicule themselves.”

Sunofgod:
Bloggers......chai.

buhariguy:
The jobless aggressive lazy idiotic pigs of Biafra are not aware that the name their terrorist chairman is among the looters list .

doctokwus:

What do u mean.
Reputable media houses reported the news and Oshiomole just confirmed he was indeed invited by the DSS,confirming the story.
Of course u would expect him to say it was just an invite for a discussion,and not solid evidence of corruption.
Much as he is living in denial,Oshiomole knows his days as APC chairman are numbered.
What the governors and those against him would continue harping on and urging PDP to do is to continue hammering on the fact that a party chairman with baggage of corruption is not fit to lead the APC into the campaigns.
Of course they also know that the dullard can be played like a puppet using the Oshiomole baggage sentiment.
Oshiomole is a goner.Its just a matter of time.

doctokwus:

What do u mean.
Reputable media houses reported the news and Oshiomole just confirmed he was indeed invited by the DSS,confirming the story.
Of course u would expect him to say it was just an invite for a discussion,and not solid evidence of corruption.
Much as he is living in denial,Oshiomole knows his days as APC chairman are numbered.
What the governors and those against him would continue harping on and urging PDP to do is to continue hammering on the fact that a party chairman with baggage of corruption is not fit to lead the APC into the campaigns.
Of course they also know that the dullard can be played like a puppet using the Oshiomole baggage sentiment.
Oshiomole is a goner.Its just a matter of time.

tinsel:

Why are you guys in pdp so eager to see him out as apc chairman?

gare:
He still dey get mouth, the plan they get for am he know No.

RockHard:


I don't understand it either. APC doesn't give a damn about Secondus, but PDP seems determined to see Oshiomhole ousted as chairman. The million dollar question is why? I think it is because they are scared and intimidated by his electoral winning streak.

tinsel:

Why are you guys in pdp so eager to see him out as apc chairman?

doctokwus:

The new Nigeria sane Nigerians like me are trying to build should have no place at the top of the leadership ladder for utterly corrupt,lying and integrity deficit souls like Buhari and Oshiomole.
That's why both of them should be booted out.
As for PDP, ask them why they want him out.

tinsel:

Your new Nigeria is Atiku?

doctokwus:

100x better than Buhari.

CilicMarin:
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This ipob doctor is In civial pains over Oshiomole and APC matters