Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has blasted the Senate President Godswill Akpabio over the nomination of a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Etekamba Umoren, for the position of the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Akwa Ibom State.
President Bola Tinubu’s appointment of Mr Umoren is illegal, going by the third schedule to the 1999 Constitution of Nigerian which clearly prohibits the appointment of partisan persons into the electoral commission.
Despite being a violation of the constitution and the outrage that followed Mr Umoren’s nomination, Mr Akpabio-led Senate went ahead to hurriedly confirm it and that of three others also linked to the president’s party, the APC.
