Mahmoud Yakubu Sworn In As INEC Chairman. . . First Electoral Umpire To Serve 2nd Term
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Re-appointed INEC Chairman
by Our Correspondent
Prof. Mahmood Yakubu may have broke the seeming jinx as the first Chief electoral umpire to serve two terms, as he was on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 sworn in as the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The reappointed INEC boss believing that elections are getting better said; “We have clearly demonstrated in recent elections that elections are getting better and better and elections will continue to get better and better.”
He made the declaration after the swearing-in ceremony by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chambers, State House in Abuja.
Buhari had in October written to the Senate to confirm Yakubu’s re-appointment.
On Tuesday last week, The Senate confirmed his re-appointment on Tuesday last week as chairman of the electoral body,.
Yakubu is former Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund).
Continuing, he said; “It is a big responsibility. It is history. No Nigerian has been so privileged to serve as chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission twice,” the professor of Political History and International Studies, added.
“And it is a responsibility I am going to discharge consistent with the oath of office.
“I am pleased to present for confirmation by the Senate, the nomination of Professor Mahmood Yakubu for appointment as Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for a second and final term,” Buhari was quoted as saying in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan.
