Chocolate City founder, Audu Maikori, has been released by the Department of State Services (DSS).
This was confirmed by his personal assistant, Edward Israel-Ayide, via his Twitter page.
He wrote: “Thanks everyone for#FreeAudu He’s been released.”
Maikori was picked up by DSS operatives on Friday in Lagos over his comments on the Southern Kaduna crisis and reportedly flown to Abuja.
On Saturday, Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, revealed that Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, was planning to take him to court on Monday before she intervened.
Ezekwesili, in a series of tweets posted on Saturday, also said she had pleaded with El-Rufai to accept Maikori’s apology for posting false information about the Southern Kaduna crisis online.
Recall that TheNewsGuru had earlier reported how Maikori was deceived by the security operatives and taken away to the Department of State Security Headquarters in Nigeria
According to a witness who spoke to TheNewsGuru on anonymity grounds, Maikori was invited by the policemen from the station he had gone to report his driver for misinforming him on the killing of five students of the College of Education Kaduna.
“They came under the pretext of wanting to talk to him about the case. On getting to the station, he was then served with a warrant of arrest and taken forcibly to the DSS Headquarters in Abuja” Our source explained
TheNewsGuru.com reports that two weeks ago, that Maikori apologized to the College of Education in Gidan-Waya, Kaduna and the Kaduna State Government, for sending out false information about an attack on the school.
Maikori at the time claimed that six students of the school were killed by Fulani herdsmen, including his driver’s younger brother.
The College of Education released a statement denying the incident and Maikori faced a lot of backlash on social media, with many saying he posted fake pictures.
He published a retraction on his Facebook page and claimed his driver, a certain Simon Joseph, misled him.