{"id":33268,"date":"2020-12-09T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=33268"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:36:14","slug":"inec-prof-mahmood-yakubu-sworn-in-for-second-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/inec-prof-mahmood-yakubu-sworn-in-for-second-tenure","title":{"rendered":"INEC: Prof Mahmood Yakubu sworn-in for second tenure"},"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 Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has been sworn in for a second term.<\/p>\n<p>Yakubu was sworn-in at the Council Chambers of the State House, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, Yakubu said elections in Nigeria were getting better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have demonstrated in recent elections that elections are getting better and better and elections will continue to get better and better,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On his confirmation by the senate, the INEC boss described it as a \u201cprivilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He promised to carry out his duties in line with the \u201coath of office\u201d he swore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a big responsibility. It is history. No Nigerian has been so privileged to serve as chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission twice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has been sworn in for a second term. Yakubu was sworn-in at the Council Chambers of the State House, on Wednesday. Speaking at the event, Yakubu said elections in Nigeria were getting better. \u201cWe have demonstrated in recent elections that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,251,254,1901],"class_list":["post-33268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-inec","tag-nigeria","tag-prof-mahmood-yakubu"],"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: Prof Mahmood Yakubu sworn-in for second tenure - 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\/inec-prof-mahmood-yakubu-sworn-in-for-second-tenure\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"INEC: Prof Mahmood Yakubu sworn-in for second tenure\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has been sworn in for a second term. Yakubu was sworn-in at the Council Chambers of the State House, on Wednesday. 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