EFCC Arrests Professor Maurice Iwu, Ex-INEC Chairman

Security operatives have arrested former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Maurice Iwu.

Family sources said Iwu was arrested in Owerri, the Imo State capital on Sunday and whisked away to Lagos.

The
source said the security operatives came from Port Harcourt and linked
up with the Imo State Commissioner of Police, who telephoned Prof Iwu
and invited him to Owerri.

When Iwu came for the meeting, he was
whisked away by security operatives and taken to the office of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Lagos.

It was gathered that in Lagos, Prof Iwu was interrogated, release and asked to report back today.

On
reporting today at the EFCC office in Lagos, Iwu was taken into
custody, with his phones impounded and switched off. He is yet to be
released.

When the spokesman of the EFCC, Mr Tony Orilade, was contacted on the development, he denied the story.