Sack All Resident Electoral Commissioners Uncovered As APC Members – Atiku Campaign Warns Buhari

The campaign council of the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has warned President Muhammadu Buhari to sack all Resident Electoral Commissioners of the Independent National Electoral Commission, who are members of his party, the All Progressives Congress.

Eaglesforesight had reported that among the 14 new Resident Electoral Commissioners President Buhari appointed and sent to Senate for screening and confirmation, some were identified by civil society organisations as APC members while others were indicted for corruption.

A coalition of eight CSOs had last week called on the Senate to reject the Buhari’s list, citing the nominees from Sokoto, Enugu, Imo, Ebonyi and Anambra, and noting that such nomination did not conform with the 1999 constitution as amended and the Electoral Act 2022.

Reacting to the revelations, the spokesperson of the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar’s campaign, Senator Dino Melaye, asked the President Buhari to sack all card-carrying members of his party in the Commission.

Senator Melaye, who made the call in a video posted on his social media pages on Wednesday, maintained that the country’s constitution disallowed those playing partisan politics from occupying such sensitive position.

He said, “I’m using this opportunity to call on President Muhammadu Buhari that many of his appointees as INEC Resident Commissioners are card carrying-members of APC.

“We want to advise the president that if he is not aware or if it was done without his consent, there is a need to re-screen his nominees for that position in various states.

“We, a campaign council will not tolerate this bias politics; we will not allow card-carrying members of the APC to be Resident Commissioner of INEC in any of the states in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“We call on the president to use his office to identify those cars carrying members of APC or any political party and substitute them with Nigerians who have no political bias.”