Ex-INEC Chair Iwu Released On Bail | Nairalaw

The Imo State Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi, on
Tuesday said a former Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission, Prof Maurice Iwu, was invited and granted
bail on his own recognisance.

This is contrary to the speculation that the former INEC boss,
who superintended over the 2007 presidential election, was arrested
in Imo State and whisked to Abuja by the operatives of the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission.

But speaking to our correspondent on the phone on Tuesday,
Galadanchi said though the EFCC operatives came for the professor
of pharmacy they didn’t go with him.

The CP said, “The EFCC operatives from Lagos arrived in Owerri
and reported in my office that they came to arrest Prof Maurice Iwu
based on a petition against him. This happened on the election day
which was on Saturday.

“I called Prof Maurice Iwu and he came over to my office. I
asked him to make a statement which he did. He was immediately
granted bail on his own recognisance based on his age, personality
and as a man who has served this country as the national chairman
of INEC.”

The CP said Iwu promised to report himself to the EFCC office in
Lagos at a later date.