DSS blocks Ben Bruce from going close to Buhari in Aso Rock

Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) barred Ben Murray Bruce from exchanging pleasantries with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa on Monday
Bruce, who joined his colleagues at the Democracy day dinner says he was blocked when he attempted to greet the president like a senator did.He tweeted

“I was at the Presidential villa today. Went to the President’s table. DSS wouldn’t allow me greet him but let another Senator greet him,”
“My critics say I shouldn’t criticize the president openly, so I go and meet him one on one and I’m blocked. Am I not a Nigerian citizen?
“If PMB’s handlers selectively block access to him, he runs the risk of being surrounded only by sycophants!

“I have nothing against the President, however, nobody is too important to be criticized and my mouth will never be silenced!”

Bruce is known to be very critical of the current administration, particularly the president.

Few hours before the villa incident, he tweeted: “It’s ‘fantastically corrupt’ that Nigeria maintains a 10 plane Presidential fleet whereas the PM of a rich nation like UK flies commercial!”