As a way of saving the conduct of the forthcoming Kogi and Bayelsa elections from running into legal problems, the Senate will likely screen the new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmud Yakubu, alongside the new national commissioners today Tuesday.
A source told Vanguard that the decision to screen the INEC Chairman and other nominees by the committee of the whole was taken after a meeting of the leadership of the Senate yesterday evening.
The screening is coming without the composition of the Senate Committee on INEC which would have handled the screening and then forward the report to the Committee of the whole.
It would be recalled that Senate President, Bukola Saraki had on Thursday read a letter from President Buhari, informing them of the appointment of the new INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmud Yakubu and five other National Commissioners and for subsequent confirmation.
In the letter, President Buhari also sought for the confirmation of Amina Bala Zakari who was acting INEC chair as Representative of the North-west, Dr. Anthonia Taiye Okoosi (Kogi), North-Central, Alhaji Baba Shettima Arfo (Borno), North-East, Dr. Mohammed Mustapha Lecky (Edo), South-South and Mr. Soyebi Adedeji Solomon (Ogun) South-West.
The newspaper was told that the leadership of the senate resolved Monday evening that the screening was an urgent matter and so would be carried out at a committee of the whole today, adding that the leadership resolved that the screening could not wait for the composition of the INEC committee because of the forthcoming elections in the two states.
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