President Bola Tinubu has nominated a lawyer, Saseyi Feyijimi Ibiyemi, as resident electoral commissioner for Ondo State.
This was disclosed by Special Adviser on Information and Strategy to the President, Bayo Onanuga.
Ibiyemi is expected to replace another lawyer, Niyi Ijalaye, who died in August while serving as the resident electoral commissioner.
The Statement added that 58 year old Ibiyemi is from Ilaje in Ondo State and is currently the Administrative Secretary of INEC in Lagos State.
She graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University in 1987 and was called to the bar in 1988.
Also, the President nominated Abdulrazak Yusuf Tukur as a National Commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission, representing the North West.
Tukur, 59, has a Bachelor of Arts from Bayero University, a postgraduate diploma in Economics from Bradford University, England and a Master of Arts from Leeds University, also in England.
He began working for INEC in 1999 as assistant chief administrative officer and rose to become the Director of Electoral Operations and Logistics. He served in the latter post till December 2023.
