President Bola Tinubu has submitted the names of 10 new Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) to the Senate for confirmation.
The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, read the letter containing the nominations during the Senate’s plenary session on Tuesday.
These newly appointed RECs were selected last week to serve in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The nominees and their respective states are as follows:
- Etekamba Umoren (Akwa Ibom)
- Isah Shaka Ehimeakne (Edo)
- Oluwatoyin Babalola (Ekiti)
- Abubakar Ahmed Ma’aji (Gombe)
- Shehu Wahab (Kwara)
- Prof. Mohammed Yelwa (Niger)
- Anugbum Onuoha (Rivers)
- Isma’ila Kaura Moyi (Zamfara)
- Bunmi Omoseyindemi (Lagos)
- 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 also found to be long-term allies of prominent politicians serving in the Tinubu administration.
In the letter seeking the confirmation of the electoral commissioners, Tinubu asked the Senate to give his request expeditious consideration.
