Race to Ascend Jega Seat Begins

   

Not fewer than 10 candidate are Jostling for the seat of INEC Chairman as more officials exit the Agency.Only four National Commissioners including the Acting Chairman Mrs zakari remains in office out of 13 National Commissioners.

Out of the four left,  two (Mr. Chris Iyimoga and Amb. Mohammad Ahmad Wali) will complete their five-year tenure today.So  Mrs Zakari and Nwuruku will be left to run the commission.

Mrs. Zakari; two former National Commissioners (Lai Olurode and Nuru Yakubu); the Director-General of INEC Electoral Institute, Prof. Abubakar Momoh; Mr. Festus Okoye ( a human rights activist); Mr. Mike Igini and three unnamed candidates.A retired Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Muhammadu Uwais, who was the chairman of an Electoral Reform Committee raised by the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, has been suggested for the job,as the Presidency shop for the best candidate.

Also, about six of the 37 Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) have finished their terms of office.