DSS operatives involved in abduction of Abubakar Idris, says PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says reports allege that Department of Security Services (DSS) operatives were involved in the abduction of Abubakar Idris.

The main opposition party urged the security agency to speak out and take urgent steps to secure the release of a social activist, if truly it had nothing to do with his disappearance.

Ologbondiyan said there had been reports alleging that DSS operatives were involved in the abduction of Idris, popularly known as @dadiyata since last Friday.

“The party says the DSS cannot continue to keep quiet on the issue since there are already claims in the news media and the public space that its men participated in the abduction allegedly on the behest of interests affiliated to the APC,” Kola Ologbondiyan, national publicity secretary of PDP said in a statement.

He said that Idris, who was PDP new media personality was known for his fierce criticism of anti-people policies.

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He added that there were already public insinuations that Idris’s abduction to an unknown destination was not unconnected with plan to intimidate, suppress and silence public opinion and free speech in Nigeria.

He said“The PDP therefore demands the DSS high command to speak out as well as take urgent steps to secure the release of Idris from his abductors before it is too late.

“This is especially because the polity is already overheated’’ he added that any delay in the release of Idris would not be at the interest of the country.”