Lagos State governor Babatunde Fashola, Thursday lambasted the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) for breaking into the data centre of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
Governor Fashola said the act showed amateurism on the part of the agency.
Fashola spoke shortly after the book presentation on Judicial Integrity: Legal Essays and Materials in honour of Justice S. O. Uwafio, who recently retired from the nation’s Supreme Court, as part of his 80th birthday anniversary celebration held at the Oba Akenzua Cultural Centre, Benin, Edo State capital.
Reacting to the outcome of the DSS’s briefing on the raid, Fashola said, “I think what you have seen yesterday is really investigation at the very amateurish level. You break into a party’s data centre without a warrant, you break the law.
“You have had several weeks to do what you like with the evidence without disclosing it to the public and at the end of the day, what do you bring forward; you accuse our party of registering under-aged people.
“Assuming that was even the case which is not, what is your business in the membership of a political party register? What was happening in that place was that people were registered and were given slips of papers and we were converting the data from hard copies into digital form.
“And I think to the extent that we are challenging all the actions in court and they said themselves that they are going to court.
“We will see whether that evidence will stand public scrutiny in court and I think that is the much that should be said for now,” Fashola added.
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