Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has bestowed the honour of Commander of the Order of the Niger, CON on the immediate past chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu.
The president’s media aide Bayo Onanuga, who disclosed this
in a statement on Tuesday, said Tinubu has accepted Yakubu’s departure as
chairman of INEC.
Earlier that bowed out of the office on Tuesday after
completing his two tenures.
Yakubu handed over to May Agbamuche as the Acting
National Chairman of the electoral umpire.
Onanuga said Tinubu had directed that Yakubu should “hand
over to the most senior national commissioner, May Agbamuche-Mbu, who will
direct the affairs of the commission until the completion of the process to
appoint a successor.
“In the letter dated October 3, 2025, Professor Yakubu
thanked the President for the opportunity to serve the nation as chairman of
the commission since 2015”.
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