BREAKING: Tinubu shakes up INEC with fresh appointments

President Bola Tinubu has nominated 4 nationalist commissioners and 2 Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs, to capable vacancies astatine the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

The appointments are arsenic follows:

National Commissioners

Professor Mustapha Aliu (North-West; replaces Professor Abdullahi Zuru)

Bashir Muhammed Umar (North-Central; replaces Professor Muhammad Adamu)

Oluwatoyin Babalola (South-West; presently REC successful Osun; replaces Professor Cornelius Ajayi)

Bala Bila (North-East; reappointed)

Resident Electoral Commissioners, RECs

Samuel Akinjide Akinleye (Ekiti State)

Zahradden Basiru Sanusi (Jigawa; replaces Professor Saidu Ahmed Babura)

The Senate volition surface the nominees and Tinubu has called for expedited confirmation up of the 2027 wide elections.

BREAKING: Tinubu shakes up INEC with caller appointments