The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has appointed a new Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Imo State. She is Sylvia Agu, a professor.
Agu replaced Prof. Francis Ezeonu, a professor of administration at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), whose contract had expired in July.
Agu is one of 19 newly inaugurated RECs that were sworn in by INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu on November 3
The new REC was welcomed by the administrative secretary of the state’s electoral agency, Thomas Ongele, a lawyer, and other management staff members, according to a statement made yesterday by the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Commission in the state, Dr. Chinenye Chijioke-Osuji. Ongele and the other management staff members promised to use the new voting technology device, Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BIVAS), to oversee a “credible, free,
She urged Commission employees to work with her by showing her the utmost devotion and support in the 27 councils and at the headquarters in Owerri.
The new REC committed in the statement to support the workers.
