{"id":32146,"date":"2020-11-09T15:47:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=32146"},"modified":"2020-11-09T15:47:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:47:13","slug":"inec-chairman-yakubu-hands-over-5-commissioners-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-chairman-yakubu-hands-over-5-commissioners-out","title":{"rendered":"INEC Chairman Yakubu hands over, 5 commissioners out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has handed over his duties to an INEC National Commissioner, Air Vice Marshal Ahmed Muazu (rtd).<\/p>\n<p>He handed over on Monday at an event held at the headquarters of the Commission in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Yakubu handed over to Ahmed pending Senate confirmation of his reappointment by President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>He said the commission was a constitutional body whose members were appointed for five years and which may be renewed for a second and final term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means that my tenure and that of the first set of five commissioners ends today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press Nigeria: Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has handed over his duties to an INEC National Commissioner, Air Vice Marshal Ahmed Muazu (rtd). He handed over on Monday at an event held at the headquarters of the Commission in Abuja. Yakubu handed over to Ahmed pending Senate confirmation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":18257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[251,1184],"class_list":["post-32146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-inec","tag-yakubu-dogara"],"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>INEC Chairman Yakubu hands over, 5 commissioners out - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa-Press Nigeria:Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has handed over his\" \/>\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\/inec-chairman-yakubu-hands-over-5-commissioners-out\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INEC Chairman Yakubu hands over, 5 commissioners out\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press Nigeria:Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has handed over his\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-chairman-yakubu-hands-over-5-commissioners-out\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-11-09T15:47:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/mahmood-yakubu.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\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\/inec-chairman-yakubu-hands-over-5-commissioners-out#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-chairman-yakubu-hands-over-5-commissioners-out\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"INEC Chairman Yakubu hands over, 5 commissioners out\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-09T15:47:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-chairman-yakubu-hands-over-5-commissioners-out\"},\"wordCount\":113,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-chairman-yakubu-hands-over-5-commissioners-out#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2019\/11\/mahmood-yakubu.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"INEC\",\"Yakubu Dogara\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-chairman-yakubu-hands-over-5-commissioners-out#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-chairman-yakubu-hands-over-5-commissioners-out\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/inec-chairman-yakubu-hands-over-5-commissioners-out\",\"name\":\"INEC Chairman Yakubu hands over, 5 commissioners out - 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