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By Henry Umoru
The Senate has confirmed Prof. Joash Ojo Amupitan SAN arsenic the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The confirmation of Amupitan followed the screening workout astatine the Hallowed Chamber connected Thursday, wherever the Senators grilled the nominee of President Bola Tinubu for 3 hours, asking him questions to which helium responded.
After the Committee of the Whole, the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, asked if the confirmation was a existent reflection of the House, and the ayes had it.
Akpabio said helium was approved without immoderate dissenting voice, and helium asked him to transportation connected his occupation wherever votes volition count.
While answering the questions, Amupitan said that helium was ne'er a Legal Counsel to the All Progressives Congress-APC astatine the 2023 Presidential Electoral Petition astatine the Tribunal and up to the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
Answering questions from the Senators during the screening exercise, Amupitan emphasized that the instrumentality reports of those copies for the cases are disposable for everyone to reappraisal if they were portion of President Bola Tinubu’s ineligible team.
He has besides assured the Senate that erstwhile cleared and confirmed arsenic INEC Chairman, helium volition guarantee elections are conducted wherever the losers congratulate the Winners for the country’s maturation and development.
The nominee, who besides promised to enactment connected logistics to guarantee that the Commission uses clones to safeguard materials, said that determination volition beryllium assertive elector education.
Amupitan appeared earlier the Senators for 3 hours.
Earlier, Amupitan was allowed into the hallowed enclosure aft the Senate Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, APC, Ekiti Central, moved that Order 12 beryllium acceptable speech to let strangers into the chamber. He was seconded by the Senate Minority Leader, Senator Abba Moro, PDP, Benue South.
Thereafter, helium came successful astatine 12.50.
Before introducing himself to the Senators for the question and reply session, the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, disclosed to his colleagues that the nominee had been cleared by the bureau of the National Security Adviser, NSA, aft vetting and fingerprinting.
According to Akpabio, the bureau of the Department of State Services, DSS, had besides cleared him.
The President of the Senate besides stated that the Office of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), aft conducting a fingerprint hunt connected him, cleared him and confirmed that helium has nary transgression records with the Police.
Amupitan is presently giving the Senators his resume.
Recall that President Bola Tinubu had connected Tuesday written to the Senate, seeking the screening and consequent confirmation of Professor Joash Amupitan (SAN) arsenic the caller National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The President, successful a missive work by the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, sought expeditious information and support by the Senate.
The missive read: “In accordance with the provisions of conception 154 subsection 1 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 arsenic amended, I americium pleased to contiguous for confirmation by the Senate the assignment of Professor Joash Amupitan, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, arsenic chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
“Attached is his program vitae, portion hoping that the Senate volition see and corroborate the assignment of the nominee successful its accustomed expeditious manner.
“Please accept, distinguished Senate President, the assurances of my highest consideration.”
Senator Akpabio accordingly forwarded the petition to the committee of the full for legislative enactment arsenic soon arsenic practicable.
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