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SSS backs down, 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.
PREMIUM TIMES reported how the SSS summoned the head of INEC’s operation and logistics department, Okechukwu Ibeanu, and four other officials of the agency.
….However, after our report and that of other media 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.
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