Tinubu Seeks Senate Confimation For Resident Electoral Commissioners

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President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to screen and confirm 10 new Resident Electoral Commissioners for a term of five years. The request was contained in a letter read by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, at plenary on Tuesday.

The newly appointed RECs were nominated last week to serve in the Independent National Electoral Commission.

They are Etekamba Umoren (Akwa Ibom) Isah Shaka Ehimeakne (Edo) Oluwatoyin Babalola (Ekiti) Abubakar Ahmed Ma’aji (Gombe) Shehu Wahab (Kwara) Prof. Mohammed Yelwa (Niger).

Others are Anugbum Onuoha (Rivers), Isma’ila Kaura Moyi (Zamfara), Bunmi Omoseyindemi (Lagos) and Aminu Kasimu Idris (Nasarawa).

Their appointment was greeted with controversies that some of them could be card-carrying members of the ruling All Progressives Congress and two others were said to be long-term allies of prominent politicians serving in the Tinubu administration.

In the letter seeking their confirmation, Tinubu asked members of the upper chamber to give his request expeditious consideration.

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