{"id":32991,"date":"2020-12-01T18:53:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T18:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=32991"},"modified":"2020-12-01T18:53:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T18:53:30","slug":"senate-confirms-mahmood-yakubu-as-inec-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/senate-confirms-mahmood-yakubu-as-inec-chairman","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Mahmood Yakubu as INEC Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission for the second term of five years.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the Senate had received a request from President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, for a second and final term in office.<\/p>\n<p>Following the request, the Senate Committee on INEC, led by Senator Kabiru Gaya, made the confirmation at plenary on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Senators who spoke before his confirmation also described him as highly qualified for the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission for the second term of five years. Recall that the Senate had received a request from President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,1578,251,1775,254,53],"class_list":["post-32991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-breaking","tag-inec","tag-mahmood-yakubu","tag-nigeria","tag-senate"],"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>Senate confirms Mahmood Yakubu as INEC Chairman - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/policy\/senate-confirms-mahmood-yakubu-as-inec-chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senate confirms Mahmood Yakubu as INEC Chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission for the second term of five years. 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