The Department of State Services is investigating Mallam Nasir El-Rufai and his sons, Bello and Bashir over the disappearance of Abubakar Idris popularly known as Dadiyata since 2019.
Recall that Idris, a lecturer at Federal University Dutsin-Ma known as Dadiyata on social media where he was famed for criticising the administrations of El-Rufai and Abdullahi Umar Ganduje while they were Kaduna and Kano governors respectively was abducted at gunpoint in 2019.
Since then his whereabouts remain unknown, with rumour linking the former Kaduna governor to the abduction.
The latter pushed back at the accusing finger recently and within the same statement blamed Ganduje for Dadiyata’s disappearance.
In turn, the former National chairman of the All Progressives Congress denied El-Rufai’s claim.
It has now emerged that the Department of State Services has reopened investigations into the issue.
This is according to Punchng citing an unnamed security source: “The DSS has reopened the case of the 2019 disappearance in Kaduna of a renowned government critic, Abubakar Idris, better known as Dadiyata, and several other cases of missing persons.
“El’Rufai is fully aware that the DSS is investigating him and his two sons for Dadiyata’s kidnapping. That was why he rushed to the ARISE news channel to cook up stories about (Umar) Ganduje and the confessions of a ghost police officer, all in a bid to divert attention.”
The report said that another source faulted the ex-governor’s statement that he got to know about Dadiyata’s existence after his disappearance.
Citing the source, “Posts by his sons on ‘X’ clearly showed that Dadiyata was a problem for their family.
“That is why Bello and Bashir will be invited along with their father to help in our investigations.”
