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Countdown to Yakubu’s Successor: Why president should not appoint INEC Chairman

Countdown to Yakubu’s Successor: Why president should not appoint INEC Chairman

Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Idowu Bankole
Published on 2025-09-28 06:56:00

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By Nnamdi Ojiego

Should the president continue to appoint the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and, by so doing, exert what critics call undue interference on the nation’s electoral system in favour of the ruling party and to the detriment of the opposition?

That is the question concerned stakeholders are attempting to answer as the tenure of the incumbent INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, and some National Commissioners of the electoral body expires in November, and must be replaced ahead of the 2027 polls.

Some stakeholders say the current process is…

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