President Bola Tinubu has sent the names of 10 new Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) for the Senate to screen and confirm them for a term of five years.
Tinubu’s request was contained in a letter read out during plenary on Tuesday by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
The newly appointed RECs 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 confirmation of the electoral commissioners, Tinubu asked members of the upper chamber to give his request expeditious consideration.
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