Leaders from the Southern and North Central Nigeria have demanded the removal of the chairman of the Independent National electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu.

Speaking under the aegis of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum, the leaders expressed fear that the commission may not deliver free and fair elections in 2019.

The Forum made this position known at a press conference in Abuja on Sunday.
In attendance were elder statesmen Chief Edwin Clark, representing the South-South, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, South-West; Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, South-East; Air Commodore Dan Suleiman (retd.), Middle Belt; and Air Commodore Nkanga Idongesit, South-South.

Chairman of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, Idongesit, said, “From 1960 till date, only President Muhammadu Buhari has been audacious to pick only people who are either his relations or of the same ethnic stock with him to lead the electoral body.

“The Balewa Government headed by a Northerner appointed Prof. Eyo Ita Esua from the South, who was in charge of the Federal Electoral Commission from 1960-66; Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, a Yoruba, set up the Federal Electoral Commission under Michael Ani (1976-1979). When Dr Goodluck Jonathan came in from the South-South, he appointed Prof. Attahiru Jega from the North-West (June 2010-Oct. 2015).”

Source:
https://www.concisenews.global/2018/06/11/southern-mbelt-leaders-want-inec-chairman-removal/

Yes he must go

The other leaders should be careful before sophisticated moroons sells them off to the caliphate.....

You guys are purely hypocrite and you expect everyone to buy into your hypocrisy.

OBJ from SW appoint federal electrol commission chairman from SS.

Buhari from NW appoint Inec chairman from NE.


What's the difference between the 2?

FriendNG:
You guys are purely hypocrite and you expect everyone to buy into your hypocrisy.

OBJ from SW appoint Inec chairman from SS.

Buhari from NW appoint Inec chairman from NE.


What's the difference between the 2?

silence is Golden wen u av A Foolish opinion

Mahmoud cannot Deliver an unbiased Election period

Jonathan appointed a northerner to head the commission during his tenure....

And he delivered an election that the opposition termed credible....

I think Buhari should take the same course and appoint a detribalized southerner to head INEC

FriendNG:
You guys are purely hypocrite and you expect everyone to buy into your hypocrisy.

OBJ from SW appoint federal electrol commission chairman from SS.

Buhari from NW appoint Inec chairman from NE.


What's the difference between the 2?

U dey mind them? They view themselves as three geopolitical region and see the north as one even when a region in the north is bigger than all their own three regions put together. Hypocritical elders. Make dem go sack him na...

Shut up!!! What do you guys add to the economy to hold key positions everywhere!! Cow rearing illiterates terrorizing d whole country

Oblang:


U dey mind them? They view themselves as three geopolitical region and see the north as one even when a region in the north is bigger than all their own three regions put together. Hypocritical elders. Make dem go sack him na...

Why PDP is not agitating for the change of the current INEC Chairman beats my imagination.

Seems they are joking with what Buhari's nepotism is set up to achieve...

SadiqBabaSani:
silence is Golden wen u av A Foolish opinion

Mahmoud cannot Deliver an unbiased Election period

Thank God you are admitting defeat even before you lose. There shall be gnashing of teeth in the waiters camp come next year. And for your information, Prof Mahmud goes nowhere

Roger3D:
Thank God you are admitting defeat even before you lose. There shall be gnashing of teeth in the waiters camp come next year. And for your information, Prof Mahmud goes nowhere

Yes he has come to stay.