After having been grilled for five hours over the coup scare that he stoked last week, the Department of State Services, DSS, released Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Aviation Minister and Director of new media of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC PCC), Monday.
But he was instructed him to be reporting to the DSS Headquarters every Wednesday until the service decides whether to charge him to court or not.
Breathing the fresh air of freedom, Fani-Kayode struck a sober note, Monday, saying he regretted his action. He admitted that he was somewhat reckless in saying that Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had been meeting with army generals, hinting that a coup might be in the offing. He agreed that he ought to have been a bit circumspect before going to town with the accusation.
He accepted that the coup scare ruffled many powerful few feathers and sent shock waves across the country. He explained that real intention was to draw the attention of security agencies to the situation in the country’s political circuit with a viewing to helping them (the agencies) to be on top of their game.That is, granted that there was any iota of truth in what he alleged.
Fani-Kayode, however, argued that the fact that he honoured the DSS invitation meant that he did nothing wrong, and that his hands were clean.
Prodded to recall his experience at Yellow House as the DSS Headquarters is called, the controversial politician said: “I was subjected to a thorough grilling. They were very inquisitive and very professional. I wasn’t oppressed and they were not acting on the call for my arrest by the PDP.”
Still, he challenged the PDP Presidential Flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar, to submit himself to the DSS, like he just did, to explain his role in the alleged diversion of public funds through the “Special Purpose Vehicle”, through which billions of naira were allegedly stolen.
