The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has removed Mrs. Amina Bala Zakari as the head of its Electoral Operations and Logistics Committee.
She is now the head of INEC’s Health and Welfare Committee.
The announcement was made in a statement issued by the National Commissioner and Member, Information and Vote Education Committee, Malam Mohammed Haruna on Thursday.
Zakari has been criticized by the leading opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over her roles in some of the elections held recently.
She was accused of involvement in alleged rigging that characterized the governorship elections in Ekiti and Osun states.
Her removal followed the re-organisatioin of some standing committees of INEC.
With the new arrangement, Barrister Festus Okoye now heads the Information and Voter Education Committee; Prince Solomon Adedeji Soyebi is of the Board of the Electoral Institute; Dr. Mohammed Mustafa Lecky heads the Planning, Monitoring and Strategy Committee while Professor Okechukwu Ibeanu heads the Electoral Operations and Logistics Committee.
Meanwhile, INEC has disclosed that none of the 89 political parties that notified it of their intention to conduct their primaries has submitted the list of its sponsored candidates and personal particulars to the centre for the purpose of collection.
INEC stated that the deadline for the submission of the list and other particulars for the 2019 general elections for Presidential and National Assembly candidates remained October 18, 2018 and Governorship and State House of Assembly, November 2, 2018.
