INEC boss under pressure to redeploy RECs in Akwa Ibom, four others vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
An official in the commission told PREMIUM TIMES, yesterday, that the chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, has been under pressure from the federal government to redeploy Mr Igini from Akwa Ibom.
“He is working on the plan,” he said. “The announcement will be out few days to the governorship election. The All Progressives Congress, APC, has been campaigning for Mr Igini’s transfer from Akwa Ibom, weeks before the just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections.The Peoples Democratic Party , which is the ruling party in Akwa Ibom, won the presidential and all the national assembly seats in the state.
Besides Mr Igini, PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the INEC chairman, Mr Yakubu, was also under pressure to redeploy resident electoral commissioners in Rivers, Imo, Benue, and Plateau states.
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