Tinubu ordered the arrest of Senator Yari, former Zamfara State Governor for allegedly ignoring the President’s calls.
The Department of State Services (DSS) reportedly arrested and imprisoned former Zamfara State governor Abdulaziz Yari for two nights.
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According to sources, Yari was arrested after President Bola Tinubu made several phone calls to his lines last month following the Senate President of the National Assembly battle.
According to one senior security officer and a State House staffer, the DSS detained Yari on Thursday morning for “thinking the president is a joke,” as one official put it.
He was asked why he ignored the president’s phone calls during the Senate leadership battle, according to an official.
He began arguing that he has every right to run for the position and that decisions about his political career should not be made by the president.
The president was attempting to persuade him to abandon his ambition in order to avoid a repeat of what happened when Bukola Saraki became Senate President in 2015.
We all knew back then that Saraki’s emergence was the first error President Buhari made, and it crippled his first four years in office, the official allegedly told SurgeZirc NG.
According to sources, Yari was summoned to the DSS headquarters by DSS Director-General Yusuf Bichi for an urgent meeting.
When the former governor arrived, he was told to wait for Bichi, who allegedly went out. However, the senator was held up all day by a phalanx of armed agents, only to be notified at about 10:00 p.m. Thursday that he would not be returning home.
As a result, Yari’s scheduled visit to former President Ibrahim Babangida with other Senate colleagues on Friday has been cancelled.
His phones were confiscated, and he could be detained for days, if not weeks, the insider continued.
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Yari was also questioned about transactions he received from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), which investigators are investigating but which the senator apparently explained were genuine.
He told them that the money from the CBN came from consulting he did for the Forum of Governors, and that he still has an outstanding balance to collect from the CBN.
