INEC chair: Senate panel to screen Yakubu today
The Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will today screen Professor Mahmood Yakubu for re-appointment as chairman of the commission. The chairman of the committee, Senator Kabiru Gaya (APC – Kano South) stated this yesterday after plenary. Senate President Ahmad Lawan had referred the nomination of Yakubu and Professor Abdullahi Abdu Zuru as […]
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.
The Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will today screen Professor Mahmood Yakubu for re-appointment as chairman of the commission.
The chairman of the committee, Senator Kabiru Gaya (APC – Kano South) stated this yesterday after plenary.
Senate President Ahmad Lawan had referred the nomination of Yakubu and Professor Abdullahi Abdu Zuru as INEC Commissioner to the committee for confirmation.
He gave the committee four weeks to report back to the Senate.
Yakubu, who was first appointed in 2015 is on the path to break the second-term jinx at the 22-year-old electoral body. If his nomination is confirmed, Yakubu, a professor of Political History and International Studies will chair the commission until November 2025, all things being equal.
Meanwhile INEC has deployed three Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) for the December 5 Lagos East and Kosofe 2 constituency by-elections in Lagos state.
The commission has also dispatched non-sensitive materials to various local governments where the election would take place.
Acting Chairman of the INEC, AVM Ahmed Muazu who spoke at the meeting of Inter-Agency Consultative Committee on Election Security (ICCES) ahead of the elections, assured the voters of safety and security in the conduct of the election.