Nigeria: Rivers: Senate screens RSIEC nominees, faults inclusion of non-indigene by sole administrator

The Senate Adhoc Committee on the Emergency Rule in Rivers State headed by its Leader, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, on Tuesday, screened nominees for membership of the state’s Independent Electoral Commission (RSIEC).

But, some drama ensued when one of the Rivers electoral commission nominees, Dr Michael Ekpai Odey, was discovered to be from Cross River State during the screening.

Odey was nominated to be the chairman of the commission.

Incidentally, he hails from the same state with the…