@Clubone05
Sound Analysis but i still beg to differ
Answering senario 1:
FITC sent the list to FCC for routine clearance to satisfy the Constitutional requirements of federal character reflection in all federal appointments and recruitment,dont forget, Nuelmae made it to FCC's office thrice, 1st after the first test, secondly after the 2nd test and lastly after the interview. Let assume he helped retain him on the list after the 1st test, Nuelmae had to pass his 2nd test and that the only way the Fed Commissioner could have seen his villa kinsman's name the 2nd time, assuming Nuelmae didnt scale the 2nd test the Fed commissioner will not have seen his name to retain it on the list, and on till interview stage clearance, so first the point- Nuelmae of a fact, helped himself to this stage of the process, the second point- what influence does an FCC's official has on a list he cannot add to but subtract from, am not clear yet on his(fed commissioner) influence, considering the fact from Fusco's claims that the first 4 from each state made the list and this is aggregated from ones total performance score from test1 to Interview? this info (aggregate scores) i believe is not accessible to FCC, cos they dont need it to do their FC clearance. So, you see! this thing is complex than we see it.
Answering the 2nd senario:
I doubt it whether Fusco's close relative can do more than give him that private privilege of knowing in advance, his status concerning the results, also it could be that this close relative just want to claim the glory of 'doing it' for fusco, pple can be funny! I do not doubt it that some very senior members will have 1 or 2 slots (very senior mgt staff i repeat and maybe some for the presidency too) except we can ascertain of a fact that fusco's relative is a NDIC's board member, then we are still in the probability game, but even at then....dont let us forget that this whole thing is not a 1-5 man team show, if i will be correct, even from the little we ve seen, FITC, NDIC HR, NDIC Board, NDIC Management team, FCC (and its various depts) etc are all involved ,if at all these stages, somebody chunks out a name and replaces it with another, then the whole process will not have fared better than NDIC's conducting it itself from the scratch! LOL (God forbid!!)
People like us will have lost hope and looked elsewhere for my miracle b4 now.
We are at this satge cos the process has to a large extent been fair, that is not to say that THE NIGERIAN FACTOR of favouritisms could not have sipped in here or there most esp these last few deciding weeks.