{"id":11229,"date":"2020-08-16T23:46:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T23:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2020-08-16T23:46:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T23:46:11","slug":"buhari-did-not-order-naabbas-questioning-by-dss-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/16\/buhari-did-not-order-naabbas-questioning-by-dss-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Did Not Order Na\u2019Abba\u2019s Questioning by DSS \u2014Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The presidency on Sunday described as a publicity stunt, reports alleging that former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Umar Ghali Na\u2019Abba, was invited by the Department of State Services (DSS) over his alleged comments against President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;DSS&nbsp;had on Friday invited Na\u2019Abba for questioning over his recent interview on the state of the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is expected to meet the secret police in Abuja on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, to the President, Garba Shehu, who reacted to Na\u2019Abba\u2019s situation in a statement in Abuja, urged Nigerians to ignore the claim linking the president with the ex-speaker\u2019s invitation by the DSS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: \u201cOur findings have revealed that Na\u2019Abba\u2019s invitation has nothing to do with his alleged utterances which, in any case, did not catch the attention of the presidency, or of any serious politician for that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are serious politicians who talk and the presidency responds because such politicians make statements that must get attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFlash-in-the-pan politicians and those who fabricate political relevance don\u2019t bother anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe advise\u00a0Na\u2019Abba\u00a0to distance the presidency from the situation he has found himself and sort himself out accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Ripples<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidency on Sunday described as a publicity stunt, reports alleging that former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Umar Ghali Na\u2019Abba, was invited by the Department of State Services (DSS) over his alleged comments against President Muhammadu Buhari. The&nbsp;DSS&nbsp;had on Friday invited Na\u2019Abba for questioning over his recent interview on the state of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-naija-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/NaAbba-and-Buhari.jpg?fit=612%2C346&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}