The Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS) Yusuf Bichi claims that politicians are sponsoring smear campaigns against him after his wife assaulted a politician in Kano.
His wife, Aisha Bichi was accused of preventing Engineer Abba Yusuf, the Kano state gubernatorial candidate of NNPP from boarding a flight from Kano to Abuja at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport.
Bichi was appointed as head of the DSS by President Muhammadu Buhari, a member of the APC.
In response to the confrontation involving his wife, the Department of State Services said on Tuesday said it had uncovered plans by some politicians and disgruntled elements within and outside the government to sponsor smear campaigns against Yusuf Bichi, and his key officials over the service’s uncompromising stance on some critical governance and policy issues.
In a statement by the DSS spokesman, Peter Afunanya, the secret service agency accused the unnamed politicians of recruiting unnamed civil society and non-governmental organisations to not only sustain but stage further rallies, road-shows and press conferences and use the occasions to discredit Bichi.
“Sections of the media have been briefed to implement the strategy through sponsored articles, commentaries and features to malign the DG, his family and select officials of the Service.
“The Service is monitoring developments and will allow the plotters to either exhaust themselves or rescind the plan of action. Otherwise, no amount of intimidation, harassment and blackmail will deter it from discharging its duties.
“However, it would not idly watch a group of dissatisfied gang to undermine the Service and its highly dedicated leadership and management.
“The DSS, therefore, wishes to inform the public to be wary of these tendencies and ignore the antics of dark forces out to impugn the character of the DG.
”It restates its unalloyed support to the President on his resolve to continue to confront head-on, threats to national security as well as create the enabling environment necessary for the 2023 general elections to hold.
