During the swearing in ceremony at the INEC headquarters in Abuja, Yakubu charged the RECs to devote their loyalty to Nigeria and not to compromise the integrity of the commission.
He also deployed the nineteen RECs to their geopolitical zones, but outside their states of origin, in line with INEC’s regulation that forbids a commissioner from serving in his or her home state.
It might interest you to know that five out the nineteen RECs are returning commissioners who were reappointed by President Muhammadu Buhari and approved by the Senate.
Johnson Alalibo Sinikiem has been redeployed to Rivers state as resident electoral commissioner
Alalibo Sinikiem, served as the REC for Cross River state, before the recent redeployment.
The redeployment is contained in a remark by the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu during the swearing in of nineteen new Resident Electoral Commissioners in Abuja.
