DSS quiz ex-Adamawa gov, Bindow, others over ‘anti-Buhari’ meeting
Senator Jibrilla Bindow, a former governor of Adamawa State, was interrogated by the Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday.
His questioning by the state service was purportedly linked to a conference he attended, at which some attendees allegedly attacked President Muhammadu Buhari and wished him dead.
According to Ripples Nigeria, the All Progressives Congress (APC) caretaker chairman in Yola South, Suleiman Adamu, was suspended by the party’s national body as a result of the leaked recording from the same meeting.
In a statement, the governor’s media adviser, Sadiq Abdullateef, confirmed the meeting between the DSS and Bindow on Wednesday, adding that the secret police had also called a few other people.
Kabiru Mijinyawa, former speaker of the Adamawa house of assembly; Sulaiman Adamu, acting APC chairman Yola south; Mustapha Barkindo, former adviser during Bindow’s administration; Abubakar Umar Sirimbai, former commissioner; and Yusha’u Adamu were among the five other people interviewed by the DSS on the same matter.
The statement, on the other hand, absolved Bindow of any responsibility for attending the meeting, claiming that those who taped and published the audio were just trying to blackmail Bindow.
Bindow warned attendees at the conference when he heard some of them cursing President Buhari, according to the statement, but the tape had been doctored before it was disclosed to the public.
The statement read: “Former Adamawa State Governor, Senator Muhammad Umar Jibrilla Bindow was invited to a party meeting because some members of the party were aggrieved about the just concluded primaries, which he attended as an elder of the party.
”It’s worthy of note that, there was no program in the said meeting, he went there and sat and listened to the aggrieved members’ complains, and there was an unwarranted outburst from some members which he cautioned, it’s sad that some people are using that outburst with a recording to malign the former governor.
”The said recording was doctored and if you listened to it very well, there are some conversations that were skipped, Senator Bindow cautioned the members making those unwarranted utterances thrice in the meeting and even threatened to walk out.
”His words were, ‘please this is not right, you don’t wish anybody death because of political reasons, talk less of our leader and father, the president. Let’s make progress please, or I am leaving’.
”But because it’s a planned recording to malign and create problems where there is none, his utterances condemning what has been said wasn’t even in the circulated recording.
”As far as we are concerned, we were invited to a meeting and things were said in public and Senator Bindow cautioned the people making those utterances and that was it.
”President Muhammadu Buhari is like a father to Bindow and he will never entertain anything of such on the president.”
