The crackdown against loyalists of former President Goodluck Jonathan has begun with the alleged arrest of Mr. Gordon Obua, the Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the former President during his six-year tenure as President.

A security source said he was taken into custody by the secret service on Thursday night.

Former President Jonathan had said shortly leaving office that he and his aides including ministers would face persecution. The ex-president’s fear must have been informed by the hate remarks that characterized the 2015 election and the posturing of key APC members who alluded after the party’s victory to impending probe and prosecution of perceived enemies of the President Muhammadu Buhari regime.

The arrest of Mr Obua was effected quietly and secretly but it has not gone unnoticed as the Society for Global Justice has called on the SSS to release him with immediate effect.

The group in a statement issued by its Executive Director, Mr Marcus Ogabe, confirmed that Obua has been detained at the SSS headquarters in Abuja since Thursday.

The Group called on Nigerians to take note of the tyrannical, autocratic and dictatorship tendency of the Muhammadu Buhari Administration as exemplified by the continued incarceration of the Chief Security Officer to former president Jonathan.

”‎Obua has been detained since last Thursday at the headquarters of the State Security Services in Abuja without charge. He was also not told the reason for which he is being detained”, the group said.