Buhari names Mahmood Yakubu as INEC Chairman

 THE National Council of States (NCS) rose from
its first meeting under the administration of
Muhammadu Buhari with the ratification of the
recommendation of the President for the
appointment of the immediate past Executive
Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund
(TETFund) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu as the new
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral
Commission, (INEC).
The Council also approved the recommendation
to name the Ag. Chairman of the Commission,
Amina Bala Zakari, a former Ag. Chairman of the
Commission, Prince Solomon Adedeji Soyebi, Dr.
Muhammad Mustapha Lekki and Dr. Taiye
Okoosi-Simbile as National Commissioners.
Briefing State House correspondents after the
meeting, which lasted for about one hour inside
the Council Chambers, Sokoto State governor,
Aminu Waziri Tambuwal along side his Abia State
counterpart, Dr. Ifeanyi Ikpeazu, Tambuwal said
the action of the President followed the massive
retirements of most of the National
Commissioners in place during the last
dispensation.
Yakubu, a Professor of History served as the
Assistant Secretary in charge of Finance and
Administration in the just concluded National
Conference. If their appointment is ratified by the
Senate, Mrs. Zakari from Jigawa State and Soyebi
from Ogun State would be serving their second
term as National Commissioner of INEC. While
Zakari’s term just ended, that of Soyebi, who
handed over to the immediate past Chairman,
Prof. Attahiru Jega as Ag. Chairman, following the
sacking of Prof. Maurice Iwu in 2011, is staging
his second come back.

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