JUST IN: INEC SWEARS IN NINE NEW RECS (FULL LIST)

Nine of the ten Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs), who were recently nominated by the president and approved by the National Assembly, were inaugurated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday.

On November 1st, President Bola Tinubu asked the Senate to approve the nominations of newly appointed Regional Economic Commissioners.

Tinubu made the request in a letter that Senate President Godswill Akpabio read aloud during a plenary session.

In the letter, the President claimed that he was following the constitution when he asked the Senate to confirm the nominations.

At a commission meeting with state resident electoral commissioners, Etekamba Umoren, the appointed resident electoral commissioner from Akwa Ibom state, was not sworn in.

The term of the resident electoral commissioner from Akwa Ibom state who is now serving in Delta will end in January, according to INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu.

Those sworn in are Isah Shaka Ehimeakne (Edo State), Mrs. Oluwatoyin Babalola (Ekiti State) Abubakar Ahmed Ma’aji (Gombe State), Shehu Wahab (Kwara State), Dr. Bunmi Omoseyindemi (Lagos State), Aminu Kasimu Idris (Nasarawa State), Prof. Mohammed Yelwa (Niger State), Dr. Anugbum Onuoha (Rivers State) and Isma’ila Kaura Moyi (Zamfara State).