Salihu Yakasai, the sacked media aide to Kano State
Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has been released from the custody of the
Department of State Services.
A brother to Yakasai, Abdullahi, made this known via his
Twitter handle.
“Alhamdulilah. My brother @dawisu is out. Thank you all!
#freedawisu,” Abdullahi tweeted.
Many Nigerians on social media had condemned the arrest of Yakasai hours after criticising the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), over the rise in school kidnappings.
Yakasai, who was until Saturday
afternoon, a media aide to Ganduje was arrested by the Department of State
Services on Friday.
Speaking on Saturday, the father of the
governor’s aide and a founding member of Arewa Consultative Forum and elder
statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, said his son was arrested on his way to a
barbing salon in Kano, the state capital.
Though the DSS in Kano State initially denied arresting the
younger Yakasai, DSS headquarters in Abuja confirmed that the sacked media aide
was in its custody.
The agency’s spokesman, Peter Afunanya, while confirming
Salihu’s detention, denied that the former aide’s arrest was connected to his
criticism of the Buhari regime.
“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,” he had said in a statement.
The aide had called on the President, Muhammadu Buhari
(retd.)-led regime to either deal with bandits in the country or resign.
The embattled media aide was sometimes 2020 suspended from
office for several weeks having earlier criticised Buhari over his failure to
tackle the security challenges bedeviling the country.
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