The Department of State Services (DSS) has invited Okechukwu Ibeanu, the national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in charge of logistics, for questioning, sources have informed TheCable.


This is believed to be related to the fiasco that led to the postponement of the general election by one week.

Mahmood Yakubu, a professor and INEC chairman, had blamed the postponement on sabotage and logistical issues.

Also invited by the DSS are Chidi Nwafor, the director of ICT; Ken Ukeagu, director of procurement; Osaze Uzzi, director of voter education and publicity; and Bimbo Oladunjoye, the assistant director of ICT.

Ahmad Mu’azu, the chairman of the ad hoc committee on logistics, is yet to be invited.

Although Ibeanu, a professor of political science, is in charge of logistics having taken over from Amina Zakari in October 2018, a different ad hoc committee was set up specifically for the elections.

The ad hoc committee, which has 17 members, is headed by Ahmed Tijjani Mu’azu, a retired air vice marshal.

A source told TheCable that Ibeanu has been invited to report to the DSS headquarters in Abuja at 2pm on Tuesday.

President Muhammadu Buhari had said on Monday that INEC would explain its “incompetence” after the elections and Ibeanu’s invitation appears to be coming early.

Ibeanu is said to have complained to his friends that he was being intimidated.

His house in Enugu and his car have reportedly been broken into with valuables, including laptops and iPads, taken away.

‘BIAFRAN IN INEC’

On Monday, an article written by Ibeanu in December 2015 resurfaced on the social media followed with a comment: “Nigeria has a Biafran agitator as the REC for Logistics, no wonder this unpatriotic individual, Professor Okechukwu Ibeanu who has made his mission to undermine the Nigerian state.”

The article in question was a rejoinder to an opinion written by Ibrahim Jibrin (“Jibo”), a professor and fellow of the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD).

His rejoinder, titled “Resolving the Igbo Non-Question: Pitfalls of Jibo’s Single Strand Ethnic Narrative’”, Ibeanu accused Jibrin of “a single strand ethnic narrative”.

“The Biafra agitation is more than relations between an ethnic elite and ethnic lumpen youths. Those young people are framing a struggle steeped in their material conditions of life – unemployment, poverty, etc. The leadership of their States (and nation as well) has failed them, but not because they are Igbo leaders, but because of broader issues of political economy, which you very well understand,” he wrote.

The social media broadcast was ended with an hashtag #INECIbeanuMustGo.

Ibeanu was dean of social sciences at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He was the director of the Institute for Development Studies in 2009-2010, and was a visiting professor in Conflict, Security and Development at King’s College London.

He was special rapporteur of the United Nations on the adverse effects of toxic wastes on human rights from 2004-2010.

In 2016, he was appointed INEC national commissioner representing the south-east.






https://www.thecable.ng/sources-dss-to-quiz-ibeanu-inec-commissioner-for-logistics

Too many dramas in this kwantery..
May God help us
Modified: fourth FTC for the Day
I smell Victory for PMB

Ever since the elections was lifted for another date, there has been too much conspiracy going on in the government. It`s been one scandal over another.... We Nigerians just want a peaceful elections and an honest result. Is that too much to ask for?
Get #ATIKULATED

Ok

I just strongly believe that the head of operational logistics must have deliberately sabotaged the election materials distribution process.
How can you mix up 10 different states and end up sending Kano materials to Katsina, Delta to Edo, etc.?
It's all coming out now.

I'm 100% with the DSS on this.

Let the quizzing begin ASAP!

Nigerians have looked back these 4 years and what we have seen is only total darkness and misery. Life has been so miserable within just 4 years of only one man Buhari, is it the herdsmen killings, bokoharam killings, disunity, nepotism, python dance on armless protesters, Shitte Muslims killings, Poverty capital of the world, what have we not seen within just 4 years of this man Buhari, what??.

Anyone thinking of voting Buhari again may all these calamity listed above follow your immediate family from generation to generation, non shall escape it till eternity. Amen

Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi all the way..

Chai...

Logistic or no logistic, we can't afford to have another shifting in the election date. It must hold February, 23rd Insha Allah.

Why didn't they invite Muazu?? He is the adhoc chairman of logistics for the presidential election. Ooo, I forgot he is from the saint hausa fulani region, all others (Igbo and yoruba) should be invited by DSS.

Idiots.. they even left Yakub from the invitation

Mahmood should be the only one invited, he heads INEC and should be held solely for this fiasco, his position has become untainable, and he should be forced to resign,that's how it is done in saner clime..The others are mere foot soldiers working under him..

Postponement a huge blow to different rigging plans of both the ruling and opposition parties.

The Saturday elections will be fairer.

That guy ibeanu should be dealth with for working for pdp.

These are the set of people PDP put all their hopeless hope on to win the election.

All their crooked Dubai strategy had been exposed, they're left with nothing than to disrupt the election.

Never again shall PDP rule or govern this nation at the national level again.

I'm only interested if it's pay after win....

I thought INEC ought to be truly "INDEPENDENT"?

If anyone is to be held accountable, it's the INEC chairman and no one else!

It's better to have a postponed election than a flawed one.

After all, they sited logistics as their excuse.
APC has been siting PDP 16 years(as if 70% of APC top dogs were not part of the 16years) for their incompetence and misgovernance.

The way the Buhari led government is going about this, shows pure desperation and fear.
If APC had done well in the past 3years they wouldn't be this Afraid and desperate or even need to campaign as much as they are doing now.

Whoever wins on Saturday, I pray it's for the good and sustainable development of Nigeria.

I LOVE MY COUNTRY BUT I'M ASHAMED OF OUR LEADERS!

Accountability belongs to INEC Chairman. INEC is a Commission. No single individual should be subjected to ridicule, intimidation, harassment or arrest. The Head of the Commission has explained and his explanation or excuse to the postponement of the 2019 general elections covers the Commission.

A known apologist of Biafra is representing the SE in INEC and they put him in charge of logistics? Even if he's appointed just to cut the grass at INEC, he sure would sabotage it.

These are the same people crying that they want to produce IGP.

Useless treasonous saboteurs.

There was indeed a plan to sabotage last week Saturday elections.

Interesting. If truly INEC mentioned "sabotage" as part of the failure in holding the election then there's nothing wrong in inviting them to come and explain what they mean by that and who they think was responsible for the sabotage.