{"id":60421,"date":"2022-03-01T15:34:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T14:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=60421"},"modified":"2022-03-01T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T14:30:50","slug":"2023-presidency-dss-warns-pdp-national-chairman-iyorchia-ayu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-presidency-dss-warns-pdp-national-chairman-iyorchia-ayu","title":{"rendered":"2023 Presidency: DSS warns PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Department of State Services, DSS, has warned the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, against making unguarded remarks against it and other security agencies in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The DSS said contrary to Ayu\u2019s recent remarks, it remains neutral and transparent in carrying out its duties.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Afunanya, the spokesman of the DSS, was reacting to a comment by Ayu, saying PDP would not use the secret police to harass Nigerians if it returns to power in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Afunanya described the PDP National Chairman\u2019s comment as unjustified.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, he stressed that the secret police, though would not join issues with politicians, however, frowned at Ayu\u2019s comment, which is \u201cconsidered unjustified, unfair, speculative and preposterous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads partly: \u201cHaving served variously as Senate President, Minister of Education, Industry, Internal Affairs and Environment, with full complements of security details, he knows the Service is never used to harass the people. And if he ever used the details for negative purposes (unknown to the Service), he should know that the times have changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAyu knows that the Service is a frontline guardian of democracy and respects the rule of law in Nigeria. It is committed to the protection of the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile members of the public are urged to disregard Ayu\u2019s statement, politicians are enjoined to desist from making unguarded utterances with tendencies to breach public order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Department of State Services, DSS, has warned the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, against making unguarded remarks against it and other security agencies in the country. The DSS said contrary to Ayu\u2019s recent remarks, it remains neutral and transparent in carrying out its duties. Peter Afunanya, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":60420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1570,2140,119,5810,254,6872],"class_list":["post-60421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-dss","tag-iyorchia-ayu","tag-nigeria","tag-pdp-national-chairman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2023 Presidency: DSS warns PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Department of State Services, DSS, has warned the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia A ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-presidency-dss-warns-pdp-national-chairman-iyorchia-ayu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2023 Presidency: DSS warns PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Department of State Services, DSS, has warned the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia A ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-presidency-dss-warns-pdp-national-chairman-iyorchia-ayu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-03-01T14:34:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/img-621e2e0293e1d.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"792\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-presidency-dss-warns-pdp-national-chairman-iyorchia-ayu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-presidency-dss-warns-pdp-national-chairman-iyorchia-ayu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2023 Presidency: DSS warns PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-03-01T14:34:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-presidency-dss-warns-pdp-national-chairman-iyorchia-ayu\"},\"wordCount\":254,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-presidency-dss-warns-pdp-national-chairman-iyorchia-ayu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/03\/img-621e2e0293e1d.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"DSS\",\"Iyorchia Ayu\",\"Nigeria\",\"PDP National Chairman\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-presidency-dss-warns-pdp-national-chairman-iyorchia-ayu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-presidency-dss-warns-pdp-national-chairman-iyorchia-ayu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2023-presidency-dss-warns-pdp-national-chairman-iyorchia-ayu\",\"name\":\"2023 Presidency: DSS warns PDP National Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu - 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