The Department of State Service has described as false a media publication indicating it’s support for tenure elongation for President Buhari inview of insecurity challenges. According to a signed statement by it’s spokesman, Dr Peter Afunanya,the Service disassociated itself from the publication titled: Nigeria’s Secret Police, DSS Tests the Water on Tenure Elongation for Buhari, Tells Journalists, CSOs 2023 Elections May Not Hold. Consequently, the DSS disassociates itself from the publication and categorically states that the information is false and obviously fabricated to malign it and mislead the populace. The Service wondered why the session that was widely applauded and described as innovative by participants including credible Civil Society groups would be misrepresented by SaharaReporters that was neither invited or participated in the exercise. Afunanya insisted that the statement by the Presidency reiterating its definite stance to hand over power to a new president on 29th May 2023, has vindicated the Service and countered the deliberate effort by SaharaReporters to create confusion. The DSS however urge the public to disregard the lies of SaharaReporters and its promoter whose activities are usually antithetical to a decorous environment. It is common knowledge that SaharaReporters is mischievously desperate and takes delight in promoting negative narratives against Government and its officials. The paper has not only remained biased and sensational in its reportage, it has sustained seditious attacks against security institutions and particularly the Service which may not hesitate to seek legal redress in the face of continued misrepresentation, Afunanya added. The Service further advised politicians and highly placed personalities to desist from making unguarded statements capable of derailing efforts to deepen the country’s democracy as well as mobilise citizens for national unity and stability. The online medium had in it’s publication accused the DSS of informing participants at its April 6th brainstorming session with CSOs/NGOs that the 2023 general elections might not hold due to insecurity. The report further stated that the session was a ruse to sell tenure elongation to the public.ReplyForward
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