{"id":31704,"date":"2020-10-28T17:18:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=31704"},"modified":"2020-10-28T17:18:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T17:18:13","slug":"pdp-demands-quick-action-from-buharis-new-reappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-demands-quick-action-from-buharis-new-reappoint","title":{"rendered":"PDP demands quick action from Buhari\u2019s new reappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday charged Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to act on the aphorism that \u201cto whom much is given, much more is expected\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>PDP also urged Yakubu to immediately look into issues that aid manipulations, rigging, violence and inconclusive elections which marred most of the exercises conducted in his previous tenure.<\/p>\n<p>The party stated this while reacting to Yakubu\u2019s reappointment as Chairman of the INEC.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday re-appointed Prof. Mahmood Yakubu as the Chairman of the INEC.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, PDP in a tweet via its Twitter handle wrote: \u201cThe @OfficialPDPNig notes the reappointment of Professor Mahmood Yakubu as the Chairman of the @inecnigeria by President @MBuhari.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProfessor Yakubu must be mindful of the aphorism that \u201cto whom much is given, much more is expected\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis reappointment, therefore, comes with a lot of expectations by Nigerians. He must quickly take a painstaking look into issues that aid manipulations, rigging, violence and inconclusive elections which marred most of the exercises conducted in his previous tenure.\u201d<\/p>\n<nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2\" data-layout=\"list\">\n<div class=\"jp-related-posts-i2__row\" data-post-count=\"3\"><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday charged Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to act on the aphorism that \u201cto whom much is given, much more is expected\u201d. PDP also urged Yakubu to immediately look into issues that aid manipulations, rigging, violence and inconclusive elections which marred most of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":31706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[283,65],"class_list":["post-31704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-opposition-party","tag-pdp"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PDP demands quick action from Buhari\u2019s new reappoint - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday charged Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Independent National\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-demands-quick-action-from-buharis-new-reappoint\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PDP demands quick action from Buhari\u2019s new reappoint\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday charged Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the Independent National\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-demands-quick-action-from-buharis-new-reappoint\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-28T17:18:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/PDP.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"828\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-demands-quick-action-from-buharis-new-reappoint#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-demands-quick-action-from-buharis-new-reappoint\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"PDP demands quick action from Buhari\u2019s new reappoint\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-28T17:18:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-demands-quick-action-from-buharis-new-reappoint\"},\"wordCount\":193,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-demands-quick-action-from-buharis-new-reappoint#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/PDP.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Opposition party\",\"PDP\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-demands-quick-action-from-buharis-new-reappoint#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-demands-quick-action-from-buharis-new-reappoint\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/pdp-demands-quick-action-from-buharis-new-reappoint\",\"name\":\"PDP demands quick action from Buhari\u2019s new reappoint - 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