DSS Operatives

SSS cancels summon of top INEC officials

The State Security Service (SSS) has backed down from its summon of top officials of the electoral commission, INEC.

The 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.

They each received a phone call from the SSS on Monday who asked them to report at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday.

They were also told that their summon had been discussed with the INEC chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, sources briefed by the affected officials told PREMIUM TIMES.

However, after media reports on Tuesday morning, Mr Ibeanu received another call from the SSS who told him the invitation had been cancelled. The other officials also received similar calls.

The SSS has refused to state publicly why it summoned the electoral officials, and why members of an ad-hoc committee set up by Mr Yakubu to handle logistics by INEC were not summoned.

In his reaction to the summon of the officials, the INEC chairman, Mr Yakubu, chose to be evasive.

Mr Yakubu spoke at a press briefing on Tuesday afternoon.

When asked if any INEC commissioner was invited, Mr Yakubu instead said no official of the agency was picked up.

“No Commissioner of INEC was picked by DSS. No commissioner’s house was raided,” the INEC chairman said.

“The commissioner they are talking about is now in his office working at the commission’s headquarters,” he said of Mr Ibeanu.

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