The State Security Service (SSS) has released Salihu Tanko, a former media aide to the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, who was arrested last Friday for calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to check Nigeria’s worsening insecurity or resign.
Tanko Yakassi, Salihu’s father, confirmed that he was released on Monday evening.
Following the recent abduction of students in the north, Tanko had said on Twitter that the ruling All Progressives Congress has failed Nigerians over the worsening insecurity and had called on Buhari to resign.
“Clearly, we as APC government, at all levels, have failed Nigerians in the number 1 duty we were elected to do, which is to secure lives & properties.
“Not a single day goes by without some sort of insecurity in this land. This is a shame! Deal with terrorists decisively or resign,” he wrote on his verified Twitter handle, @dawisu.
He was afterwards picked up by the SSS after his comments.
Shortly after his arrest, Tanko was sacked by Governor Ganduje, who said he ought not to be part of a government he doesn’t believe in.
Announcing the sack, the state governor said “he failed to differentiate between personal opinion and official stand on matters of public concern and therefore could not be allowed to continue to serve in a government he does not believe in”.