Aisha Bichi, wife of Yusuf Bichi, the director general of the Department of State Services (DSS) did not order the arrest of Abba Yusuf, the NNPP governorship candidate in Kano, her son has said.
In a post on his Twitter account, her son, Abba Yusuf Bichi said explained that the NNPP candidate’s thugs blocked his mother’s convoy and that her security detail had to act after civil approaches failed.
Bichi, who describes himself as a Nigerian international footballer, noted that when one of the goons of the NNPP candidate, Yusuf, attempted to go after his mother, the DSS reacted.
“The wife of the DG DSS never ordered the arrest of Abba Gida Gida or the killing of his political goon. The convoy of the DG DSS wife was blocked by the thugs of Abba and the DSS agents demanded entrance into the airport which the goons denied, the agents approached and the goons turned violent while Abba Gida Gida was watching from his car while all of this was unveiling.
“The DSS agents decided to make entry again into the airport then Abba Gida Gida who was in his car decided to come down from his car and started harassing the DSS agents and ordered his goons to be violent, while all of this was happening the wife of the DG DSS came down from her car and pleaded with Abba Gida Gida to let it go which he turned on the wife of the DG and started raining insults on her.
“One of his goons attempted to go after the wife of the DG that’s when the DSS agents attached to her neutralise him which resulted in his injuries,” he said in his tweet.
Chronicle NG reports that Aisha Bichi is 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.
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