South East Senate Caucus Rejects PenCom DG Nominee

South East Senate Caucus has rejected President Muhammadu Buhari’s nomination of Hajia Aisha Dahir-Umar, the current Acting Director General of National Pension Commission (PenCom) as the substantive Director General of PenCom. The caucus at a meeting held at the weekend at the instance of Senate Minority Leader, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, rejected the nomination of Umar for confirmation as substantive Director General of PenCom.

THISDAY disclosed that a ranking Senator who attended the meeting confirmed that Senators from the five South East states agreed that replacement for the former PenCom DG, Mrs. Chinelo Anohu-Amazu from Anambra state, must come from any of the states from the geo-political zone.

The South East Senators are backing their rejection with the provisions of Section 21(2) of the Pension Reform Act 2014, which provides that in the event of a vacancy in the board of PenCom, the President shall appoint a replacement from the geopolitical zone of the immediate past member that vacated office to complete the remaining tenure. They maintained that a replacement for Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, Director General of PenCom, Oct 2014 – Apr 2017, when she was removed by President Buhari, must come from the South East.

The Senators concluded to present their rejection to the Senate committee on Public Service and Establishment to which the PenCom Board nominees had been referred to last week week by the upper legislative chamber for further legislative work.

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