Segun Showunmi, a member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, has defended his spouse’s redeployment to go the Electoral Operations Department of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
Showunmi stated his role in Tinubu’s 2027 re-election marketing campaign had nothing to do together with his spouse, Oluyemi Adeyemi-Showunmi, securing the place.
According to him, the posting was purely an inner administrative determination by the fee, urging these questioning it to look at her monitor file.
He made the remarks on Channels Television, the place he grew to become agitated after the presenter requested whether or not his spouse’s new role was compensation for his political actions.
The controversy started after INEC redeployed Oluyemi, who was the fee’s administrative secretary in Lagos State, to its nationwide headquarters to go Electoral Operations forward of the 2027 elections.
In the reshuffle, Isah Magaji Gummi, who beforehand headed Electoral Operations, was moved to the Voter Registry Department, whereas Oluyemi took over his former place.
Reacting to insinuations linking his political actions to his spouse’s elevation, Showunmi described her as a profession INEC officer who had spent her total working life with the fee.
He stated she joined INEC instantly after finishing her National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, programme in Maiduguri and had remained with the fee ever since, including that her redeployment was an inner association unrelated to him.
“That’s a civil servant you are talking about there. She’s a level 17 officer. Up till this posting, which comes within their own organisation and has nothing to do with anybody, I’m not even sure the President knows,” Showunmi stated.
