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Breaking News | BREAKING: Senate Begins Screening, Confirmation Of Lauretta Onochie, Others As INEC Commissioners

Views: Visits 6 THE Senate has begun the screening and subsequent confirmation of the Special Assistant, Social Media to President Muhammadu Buhari,  Lauretta Onochie as a National Commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday forwarded the name of Onochie  and five others as Federal Commissioners to the Senator Kabiru Gaya, All Progressives Congress, APC, Kano South led Senate Committee on INEC. Lawan gave the Committee two weeks to carry out legislative action on the list and report back at Plenary. The action of the President of the Senate was sequel to the Executive Communication read by the Senate Leader, Senator Yahaya Abdullahi, APC, Kebbi North that the Senate do consider the request of President Muhammadu Buhari on the confirmation of the Nominations of the following persons for Appointment as Commissioners of INEC in accordance with Paragraph 14 Part 1(F) of the Third Sc

7 months after, concerns over Buhari s INEC commissioner-nominees

Apart from the chairman of the commission, Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, there are 12 national commissioners that run the administration of the electoral umpire. Yakubu, whose first tenure ended on Monday, November 9, 2020, was re-appointed as the chairman of the commission for a record second term in office. However, five national commissioners whose tenure expired and are not eligible for re-appointment were Mrs Amina Bala Zakari (Jigawa, North West) who had acted as INEC chairman before Yakubu took over Professor Antonia Taiye Okoosi-Simbine (Kogi, North-Central); Alhaji Baba Shettima Arfo (Borno, North-East); Dr Mohammed Mustafa Lecky (Edo, South-South) and Prince Adedeji Solomon Soyebi (Ogun, South-West).

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