The Department of State Services (DSS) on Wednesday grilled a former governor of Adamawa State, Jibrilla Bindow, for spearheading a meeting where some aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) poured abuses on President Muhammadu Buhari.
An audiotape of the meeting, whcih was held in Adamawa, had earlier been leaked to the media.
21st CENTURY CHRONICLE gathered that the DSS also grilled former speaker Adamawa house of assembly, Kabiru Mijinyawa; acting APC chairman Yola south, Sulaiman Adamu; former adviser during Bindow’s administration, Mustapha Barkindo; former commissioner, Abubakar Umar Sirimbai; and Yusha’u Adamu.
A spokesperson to Bindow, Sadiq Abdullateef, said Bindow has since been released by the secret police.
Abdullateef in a statement issued on Wednesday, said the former governor condemned those making incendiary comments against the president at the meeting.
”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,” the statement said.
”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 is such on the president.”
