SENATE CONFIRMS NOMINEES
The Nigerian Senate has confirmed the appointment a new National Commissioner and three new Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
The incoming National Commissioner of INEC is Festus Okoye who is to represent the South-East Geopolitical Zone.
The new Resident Electoral Commissioners are Attahiru Garba for Niger State; Ahmed Mahmud for Zamfara State, and Monday Udo-Tom who fills the slot for Akwa Ibom State.
The confirmation of the appointees of President Muhammadu Buhari followed the adoption of the report of the Senate Committee on INEC, chaired by Senator Suleiman Nazif.
The Senate Committee on INEC had for the third time rejected the nomination of Ahmed Mahmud from Zamfara State on grounds of petitions from the State Governor.
But the Senate voted against the recommendation after Senator Kabir Marafa and Senator James manager came to defence of the nominee by faulting the Committee’s stance that he was not an indigene of the state.
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