INEC chairperson, Mahmood Yakubu, begins leave, hands over
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Summary: Mr Yakubu’s tenure is expected to end on 9 November. He was first appointed on the same date in 2015 and reappointed by the late former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2020.
A month to the expiration of his tenure as INEC Chairperson, Mahmood Yakubu, a professor, has begun his pre-exit leave.
Mr Yakubu, on Tuesday, also handed over the affairs of the commission to May Agbamuche-Mbu, the most senior national commissioner.
Mrs Agbamuche-Mbu is now the acting chairperson of the commission pending the appointment of a substantive head of the e
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