The State Security Service (SSS) has summoned the senior official who substantively heads the Independent National Electoral Commission’s operations and logistics, Okechukwu Ibeanu.
This is an indication the secret service may have moved to investigate the circumstances that led to the postponement of Nigeria’s elections earlier scheduled to hold last Saturday.
Mr Ibeanu, a professor of political science, was asked to report at the SSS office by 2:00 p.m., multiple sources close to INEC told this paper. Apart from Mr Ibeanu, others asked to appear before the SSS include Chidi Nwafor, the Director of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Ken Ukeagu; Osaze Uzzi, the Director of Voter Education and Publicity and Bimbo Oladunjoye, the Assistant Director of ICT.
INEC’s spokesperson, Festus Okoye, could not be reached to comment on this report. He did not answer calls placed to his phone and also did not reply to a text message. The spokesperson for the SSS, Peter Afunaya, when contacted simply said: “I am not aware.” The elections were called off by Mr Yakubu hours before the exercise was due to open on Saturday. He blamed logistics difficulties for the failure.
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