Senate Confirms Appointment Of 15 Resident Electoral Commissioners

The Senate has confirmed the appointment of 15 resident electoral commissioners for the Independent National Electoral Commission.

 

This followed the presentation of the report by the Senate Committee on INEC by Senator Suleiman Nazif.

According to Senator Nazif, the RECs, whose appointment were approved had been screened by the police, Code of Conduct Bureau and Department of State Services.
Twelve of the REC nominees are still being screened.
President Buhari had forwarded the names of 27 REC nominees to the Senate on March 23.

The Senate had, however, on March 28, refused to screen the nominees after criticising the President for keeping Mr Ibrahim Magu as acting EFCC Chairman even though they had rejected him twice.
The lawmakers eventually commenced the screening exercises on May 10.