President Bola Tinubu is seeking Senate confirmation for the appointments of 10 Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The RECs are to serve a five-year term each according to a statement by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale.

Ngelale said Tinubu made the appointments in exercise of the powers vested on him by both the 1999 Constitution (as amended) and the Electoral Act 2022.

He listed the RECs and their states of deployment as: Etekamba Umoren (Akwa Ibom);  Isah Shaka Ehimeakne (Edo); Mrs. Oluwatoyin Babalola (Ekiti); Abubakar Ahmed Ma’aji (Gombe); Shehu Wahab (Kwara); Dr. Bunmi Omoseyindemi (Lagos); Aminu Kasimu Idris (Nasarawa); Prof. Mohammed Yelwa (Niger); Dr. Anugbum Onuoha (Rivers) and Isma’ila Kaura Moyi (Zamfara).

The statement reads: “By powers vested in him by Section 154 (1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999, Amended) and Section 6 of the Electoral Act (2022), President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of nine (9) new Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for a term of five (5) years each, subject to the confirmation of the Senate

“President Tinubu expects the new appointees to abide by the highest standards of professional and ethical conduct in the discharge of their duties, in accordance with his determination to facilitate the establishment of a new and sustainable standard of transparent, fair, and conflict-free electoral conduct in Nigeria.”