DSS Arraigns Mubarak Abdullahi Over Fake Tinubu Letter To US President

The Department of State Services, DSS, has arraigned a Kaduna man, Mubarak Abdullahi, also known as Sardaunan Samari, over alleged circulation of a fake letter purportedly written by President Bola Tinubu to the President of the United States.

Abdullahi, described as an avowed supporter of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, was arrested on September 28 after allegedly sharing the document on his Facebook page with the caption “ATIKU IS COMING.”

Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, disclosed this in a post on X late Monday, saying Abdullahi had been arraigned before Chief Magistrate Court No.10, Kabala Doki, Kaduna.

“The suspect, Mubarak Abdullahi (aka Sardaunan Samari), was arrested on 28 September for sharing the fake document on his Facebook page with the caption ‘ATIKU IS COMING.’ Mubarak admitted to investigators that he shared the fake document and apologised for his actions. The contrition was not enough. The DSS arraigned him before Chief Magistrate Court No.10, Kabala Doki, Kaduna, which ordered his remand at the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Kaduna,” Onanuga wrote.

He added that the DSS has filed a three-count charge bordering on cybercrime and defamation against him at the Federal High Court, Kaduna.

According to Onanuga, the DSS would continue to demonstrate its ability to identify people involved in circulating misleading information online.

Meanwhile, human rights activist and AAC presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, criticised the arrest, accusing DSS of being used to suppress dissent.

“How low will you go, APC and Tinubu regime? How on earth do you reduce a national security agency like DSS to a mere vacuum cleaner, deployed to sweep up dissenting voices? Arresting a hapless citizen for posting a document online – sad! Shame on all of you! A day of reckoning is coming,” Sowore wrote on X.

Neither Atiku nor his media aide, Phrank Shaibu, had reacted as of press time.