Taking over immediately after the 2015 elections run by previous INEC chairman Attahiru Jega and which saw an incumbent president lose power for the first time Yakubu had a difficult act to follow...
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A parallel initiative is being mooted by: Attahiru Jega former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission; Pat Utomi a founder of the Lagos Business School; and Donald Duke former governor of Cross Rivers State...
INEC chairman Mahmood Yakubu lacks the public confidence of his predecessor Attahiru Jega although he has made decisions behind the scenes that have annoyed the big parties (AC Vol 59 No 21 Now the race looks serious)...
Yet Professor Attahiru Jega's reforms when he was chair of the Independent National Electoral Commission from 2010 to 2015 particularly the biometric voter cards and electronic card readers disrupted the established rigging operations making the 2015 vote a serious contest...
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Under Yakubu's distinguished predecessor Attahiru Muhammadu Jega last year's elections in Rivers were also murderous and fraudulent...
The accolades heaped on Attahiru Jega and his team at the Independent National Electoral Commission for organising the country's most credible elections to date make much of the use of new technology (AC Vol 51 No 18 Good man impossible job)...
The accolades heaped on Attahiru Jega and his team at the Independent National Electoral Commission for organising the country's most credible elections to date make much of the use of new technology (AC Vol 51 No 18 Good man impossible job)...
Mooted plans involved forcing the resignation of Attahiru Jega Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) who was seen to be taking the 'independent' part of his mandate too seriously along with paying billions of naira to influential local leaders and using security forces to rig the vote as was done in the Ekiti State gubernatorial election last year (AC Vol 56 No 4 Policing the vote)...
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A former Minister for the Niger Delta Peter Godsday Orubebe mounted a bizarre protest at INEC headquarters sitting on the podium and loudly accusing Chairman Attahiru Jega of bias against his region...
'There was something closer to a genuine election in 2011 in the Delta states and this year – if INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega has his way – a biometric verification system will check the eligibility of all would-be voters and all parties will ensure their agents closely monitor the count at polling stations...