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Nigeria: Buhari Swears in Yakubu As Electoral Board Chairman
Daily Trust, 9 December 2020
President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, for another five-year term. Read more »
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Nigeria: Senate Confirms Yakubu As INEC Chairman
Daily Trust, 2 December 2020
He is unbiased, apolitical - Opposition lawmakers Read more »
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Nigeria: Senate Confirms Mahmood Yakubu As Electoral Board Chairman
Premium Times, 1 December 2020
The confirmation is for a second and final term. Read more »
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Nigeria: In Historic Move, Buhari Nominates Yakubu for Second Term
This Day, 28 October 2020
In a historic move, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday presented the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, for a second term of… Read more »
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Nigeria: 22 Years After, Yakubu Breaks Second Term Jinx in INEC
Daily Trust, 28 October 2020
With President Muhammadu Buhari's nomination yesterday, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who was first appointed in 2015, is on the path to breaking the second term jinx at the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Buhari Re-Appoints Mahmood Yakubu As Electoral Board Chairman
Premium Times, 27 October 2020
Mr Yakubu was first appointed INEC chairman in November 2015. Read more »
For First Time Ever, Nigeria's Elections Boss Reappointed
President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Mahmood Yakubu as the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for a second term in office. Yakubu was first appointed by Buhari in November 2015. He is the first chairman of the commission to be nominated twice. While many of the elections he supervised have been criticised by local and international observers for inadequacies, he has been commended for the recent governor elections in Edo and Ondo States.
InFocus
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Several political parties have blamed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for playing an active role in rigging the last general elections, won by President ... Read more »
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Rotimi Akeredolu, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, has been re-elected for a second four-year term. Akeredolu won 15 of the 18 local government areas. His main ... Read more »
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Young Nigerians are backing a petition on Change.org calling on the country's electoral commission Read more »
Electoral commission chair, Professor Mahmood Yakubu showing a specimen ballot paper for Ekiti governorship election during a meeting in Abuja during 2018 (file photo).
