Serving DSS officer deputy safety director of APC marketing campaign – ADC alleges

The African Democratic Congress Presidential Campaign Council, ADC-PCC, has alleged {that a} serving director of the Department of State Services, DSS, is holding the place of Deputy Director of Security and Intelligence within the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council.

The council described the alleged involvement as an act of partisanship and known as on the DSS Director-General, Oluwatosin Ajayi, to research the matter.

The Director of Media and Publicity of the ADC-PCC, Kola Ologbondiyan, made the allegation on Wednesday throughout an look on Sunrise, a Channels Television programme.

Ologbondiyan stated the DSS director’s alleged membership of the ruling social gathering’s marketing campaign construction raised considerations concerning the neutrality of the safety company.

“The DSS director-general should investigate the allegation and find out whether any serving officer is involved in partisan political activities, particularly in the APC campaign council,” he stated.

Ologbondiyan maintained that though safety operatives have been anticipated to observe political actions and supply safety for candidates, they need to not change into members of political marketing campaign organisations.

“There is no DSS operative that is serving that is on our list of campaign membership. You will definitely have a DSS operative who is keeping watch over our candidates. But when a DSS operative who is expected to provide security becomes a member of a campaign council, he has become partisan,” he stated.

He added that the alleged involvement of the director may expose the officer to political affect and compromise the company’s neutrality.