Tag: YAKUBU

2027: Tinubu faces pressure, as INEC boss bows out in 60 days

Aminu Imam
Tinubu INEC Chair Yakubu

…Observers are asking: “Who’ll take charge of polls?” With just 60 days left until the end of Professor Mahmood Yakubu’s historic decade at the helm of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Nigeria is on edge over who will steer the nation’s elections into 2027. Yakubu’s second and final five-year tenure officially winds down on November 9, 2025 – a day after he supervises his last major poll, the Anambra governorship election. That vote, set for November, 8 across 5,720 polling units, could well define his legacy. Appointed in 2015…

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INEC tasks media on ethics ahead of Kogi guber poll

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday tasked media practitioners to ensure ethics in their reportage, ahead of the November 11 Kogi governorship election. Professor Mahmud Yakubu, the Chairman, INEC, said this at a meeting with Kogi media executives in Lokoja as part of preparation for the election. Yakubu, through his media aide, Rotimi Olakanmi, said that the appeal became imperative because of the reoccurring cases of fake news in the media in recent times. “As stakeholders, the media should refuse the temptation to move away from facts as…

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Don’t simply lament, get involved — INEC advises voters

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has implored Civil Society Organisations  (CSOs) and the citizens, specially youths, to get involved in deepening the country’s democracy. INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu at the commission’s consultative meeting with CSOs on Wednesday in Abuja, said that citizens should not just lament but get involved in the democratic process. Yakubu  advised CSOs to sensitise voters, especially the youth who constituted the larger percentage in the voter register, to come out and vote on election days. He disclosed that as at Jan. 17  a total…

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