Barring any last minute change,the Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Ambassador Toyin Akeju, will this week proceed on leave ahead of the state governorsip election slated for August 9, 2014. A reliable source at the INEC office in Oshogbo, Osun State, told the Sunday Tribune that the REC in Kogi State,Mr Segun Agbaje, is to take charge in the state from this week .
The decision was taken last week dur...ing the routine meeting of the National Chairman of the Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, with the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), RECs which was attended by the National Electoral Commissioners.
According to the source,”the change is overdue and as the Commission is preparing to deliver a free and fair election in Osun as was done in Ekiti State, there is nothing new about it. The man in question is going on his annual leave and there should be no vacuum.”
A High Court had ruled that the state REC should be removed having been linked with a national leader of now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), but the Commission had refused to carry out the ruling, saying that it would not act on mere rumour.
Though Sunday Tribune could not reach the Chief Press Secretary, to the national chairman of the Commission, Mr Kayode Idowu, one of the national Commissioners of the Commission confirmed the development, saying that they wanted to give Nigeria the best and nothing more. Osun REC is only going on leave,” he confirmed.
Source: Tribune
