The Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, has congratulated Professor Mahmood Yakubu on his re-appointment as INEC Chairman. IPAC in a statement signed by its National Chairman, Dr Leonard Nzenwa on behalf of all registered political parties in Nigeria, applauded Yakubu’s appointment stating that only few helmsmen at the Commision were able to achieve respectable results in their first tenure. Recounting that Prof. Yakubu mounted the saddle of INEC four months after the exit of his predecessor, Prof. Attahiru Jega, who presided over the crucial 2015 general election that ushered President Muhammadu Buhari as president, the IPAC chairman praised the INEC chairman’s remarkable digitalization programme which has transformed the way elections have been conducted in the country in the last five years. He added that the success of the Edo and Ondo 2020 Gubernatorial Polls are clear examples of the positive technology and digitization trajectory which Prof. Yakubus’ first tenure gave to Nigeria. The Council however urged Prof. Yakubu to continue with the strident effort to help in reformation of the electoral process, even as it requests the chairman to put his foot down to ensure that Nigerians votes count in future elections. It further called on relevant stakeholders to work and support the re-appointed INEC chairman effort to make all polls in the country to be inclusive, fair, free and credible. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu is the first INEC chairman to be re-appointed in the history of Nigeria.
