Row over appointment of senate clerk as civil group petitions NASC

By Luminous Jannamike

ABUJA – A civilian nine organisation, the Malcolm Omirhobo Foundation, has petitioned the Chairman of the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) implicit the assignment of Mr. Emmanuel Odoh arsenic Acting Clerk of the Senate, urging the Commission to reappraisal the process and guarantee compliance with nationalist work procedures.

The petition, dated 6 October 2025, raised concerns astir adherence to owed process, merit, and national quality successful the assignment exercise.

It was co-signed by 3 lawyers: Dr. S. M. Oyeghe, Esq.; Chukwudi B. Nwuzor, Esq.; and Benneth J. Ebikon, Esq., who requested an administrative reappraisal of the circumstances surrounding the selection.

In the petition titled ‘Petition Against the Processes successful the Appointment of the Acting Clerk of the Senate,’ the Foundation said the process did not, successful its view, bespeak the principles of merit and fairness expected successful specified appointments.

“The caller assignment of the Acting Clerk of the Senate violated the Civil Service Rules, Meritocracy, and Standing Practice and Federal Character,” the radical stated.

It besides drew attraction to what it described arsenic inconsistencies successful authoritative records, urging the NASC to verify applicable documents related to the appointment.

“As a acrophobic organisation, we are apprehensive to cognize the motive down the assignment of Mr. Odoh to the presumption of Clerk of the Senate, portion much qualified officers look to person been overlooked,” the petition said.

The radical called for an probe and recommended that aboriginal appointments should beryllium made strictly successful accordance with civilian work rules.

“We truthful impulse your bully aforesaid to intervene and guarantee a discreet probe into the issues raised above, and that owed process beryllium followed successful the assignment of the Clerk of the Senate, having respect for seniority and zoning successful enactment with Federal Character,” it added.

It besides asked the NASC to uphold transparency and consistency successful interior administrative practices wrong the National Assembly bureaucracy.

“We spot that your esteemed bureau volition instrumentality indispensable enactment to reaffirm the principles of meritocracy, equity, and standardisation successful Nigeria’s nationalist service,” the petition stated.

Copies of the petition were forwarded to the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Clerk to the National Assembly.

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