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No REC has been removed-INEC
Press statement Wed July
20,2011
The attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) has been drawn to an unsubstantiated and outrightly
fabricated report making the rounds that some Resident Electoral
Commissioners (RECs) have been removed.
The report suggests that the RECs were removed by the
Commission.This is to assure the general public that the entire
report is outrightly false. The true position is that the 13
RECs in question have formally served out the
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5-year terms and the Commission used the occasion of the
post-election Retreat just concluded with them in Uyo, Akwa Ibom
State, to treat them to a farewell dinner on Tuesday, July 19,
2011. The Hon. Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, did make it clear
that the farewell dinner was without prejudice to the
possibility of their being returned by the appointing
authorities for further terms.
The RECs whose tenures officially expired are those who served
in Benue, Taraba, Kebbi, Kogi, Ebonyi, Enugu and Gombe states.
The others are those in Oyo, Abia, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi and
Ogun States.
It should be noted that the RECs have served with exceptional
diligence and integrity, and it was in view of this that the
Commission deemed them deserving of a farewell dinner,
irrespective of whether or not they would return for further
terms. Besides, the Commission is in no legal position to sack
RECs.
The public is, therefore, urged to discountenance the false
report.
Kayode R. Idowu
Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman
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