Senate Screens, Confirms Mahmoud Yakubu As INEC Chairman

The senate has screened INEC Chairman nominee, Mahmoud Yakubu, a first class degree holder in History from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

 

He is a former Executive Secretary of the Education Trust Fund. He advocated for early primaries before any election is to be conducted so that people can be familiar with the election candidate. He said he might be coming to the National Assembly for a reform on early election primaries.

During his presentation, the nominee advocated for E-voting, saying it is desirable and inevitable. He however said we must thread cautiously as we attempt to use E-voting. He same the workability of the technology used for E-voting must be considered.

On diaspora voting, Yakubu said it is worth trying but however there are election reforms to be done. Such reforms including the law demanding an electorate to vote only where they did their voters card registration.

He was later confirmed as INEC and four Commissioners namely Antonla Taiye Okoosi Simbine for North-central, Alhaji Baba Shettima Arfo for North-east, Mohammed Mustafa Lecky for South-south, Amina Zakari for North East and Soyebi Adedeji Solomon for South-west. Were all screened today October 29th.