President Bola Tinubu has officially written to the Senate, seeking the screening and subsequent confirmation of five nominees for the position of Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The request was read out in the Senate on Tuesday by the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio.
According to the letter from President Tinubu, the five nominees are Umar Yusuf Garba (Kano State), Saad Umar (Bauchi State), Chukwuemeka C. Ibeziako (Anambra State), Umar Mukhtar (Borno State) and Dr. Johnson Alalibo Sinikiem (Bayelsa State)