Browsing: Prof. Mahmud Yakubu

This is contrary to the position of the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Bayelsa State, Obo Effanga, recently.

Justice John Tsoho, in his judgment, held that the applicant, Emmanuel Agonsi, failed to establish that it was in public interest for the CCB to make public the information he sought.

The Chairman of Electoral body, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, made this known before the Senate Committee on Appropriations.

He said that with the Anambra State governorship and elections in other states around the corner, the Commission requires the prayers and support of every good Nigerian.

He observed that the requests, which were 5,700 as at October, 2020, had spiraled by over 4,000 in just four months.

Yakubu said this at the inauguration of the House of Representatives Special Committee on the Review of 1999 Constitution (as Amended) on Thursday in Abuja.

Yakubu disclosed this in his in an address of welcome at a Two-Day 2019 Election Project Plan Implementation for the senior management staff of the commission in Lagos

The commission, in a statement issued on its online newspaper on Wednesday in Abuja, said each state and the Federal Capital Territory was allocated 10 new centres

Yakubu made the remarks when he led other National Commissioners of INEC on a thank you visit to the Senate for a job well-done

The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmud Yakubu, said this during the 2016 budget defence session before members of the House of Representative Committee on Electoral Matters and Political Parties Affairs on Monday in Abuja

Yakubu gave the advice during an interactive session with journalists in Abuja