The Ekiti State House of Assembly has confirmed the appointment of a
retired Chief Judge of the State, Justice Kayode Bamisile, as Chairman
of the Ekiti State Independent Electoral Commission.
Describing the confirmation of the nominees as historic, the Speaker, Kola Oluwawole, berated the immediate past administration in the state for not conducting local government elections.
According to a statement by the Speaker’s Special Assistant (Media), Stephen Gbadamosi, on Wednesday, also appointed as members of the commission are Mr. Bello Ganiyu, Mrs. Mojisola Bankole and Mrs Victoria Akinyera.
Oluwawole said, “We have not had election at the grassroots for many years in this state. We are going to have it now, as men and women of integrity have been put together, ready to be saddled with that responsibility.
“For the period of four years that the Kayode Fayemi-led government reigned, there was no election. That was against the tenets of democracy. They refused to conduct elections. They kept on giving untenable excuses.
“Today, we are laying the foundation to correct that anomaly that they entrenched. By the virtue of the credentials of these gentlemen and ladies, the result of the House screening committee’s exercise at the parliamentary level this morning and the nominees’ responses to House members’ questions at this plenary, it is sure that these are people of integrity,” Oluwawole said.
Earlier, the House had confirmed the nomination of Alhaji Tajudeen Arowolo as a member of the state House of Assembly Service Commission.
Describing the confirmation of the nominees as historic, the Speaker, Kola Oluwawole, berated the immediate past administration in the state for not conducting local government elections.
According to a statement by the Speaker’s Special Assistant (Media), Stephen Gbadamosi, on Wednesday, also appointed as members of the commission are Mr. Bello Ganiyu, Mrs. Mojisola Bankole and Mrs Victoria Akinyera.
Oluwawole said, “We have not had election at the grassroots for many years in this state. We are going to have it now, as men and women of integrity have been put together, ready to be saddled with that responsibility.
“For the period of four years that the Kayode Fayemi-led government reigned, there was no election. That was against the tenets of democracy. They refused to conduct elections. They kept on giving untenable excuses.
“Today, we are laying the foundation to correct that anomaly that they entrenched. By the virtue of the credentials of these gentlemen and ladies, the result of the House screening committee’s exercise at the parliamentary level this morning and the nominees’ responses to House members’ questions at this plenary, it is sure that these are people of integrity,” Oluwawole said.
Earlier, the House had confirmed the nomination of Alhaji Tajudeen Arowolo as a member of the state House of Assembly Service Commission.
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