https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o69w-i9AwTs

INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu Paid N3bn To Secure Reappointment

According to a top insider, Yakubu paid at least N3bn in bribes to have his tenure as INEC Chairman extended by another five years.

“He paid a princely sum of N2bn to a group led by Senate President Ahmed Lawan and another N1bn to another group.

“These huge funds were deployed and mobilised by a civil servant and director in INEC, who is described as wealthy and in charge of a strategic department.

“The director was also aided by a contractor to the commission, Mohammed Sani Musa, who is presently a serving senator from Niger State responsible for the printing of INEC ballot papers used for elections under a company (Activate Technologies).

It was further gathered that the reappointment of Yakubu as INEC boss was further made possible with the deaths of President Buhari’s former Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, and Alhaji Isa Funtua, and the disappearance from public glare of Mamman Daura, a key member of a trusted group of allies Buhari relies on before making important decisions.

The absence of these men, it was gathered, created the perfect avenue for powerful government officials with vested interests to persuade the President into handing Yakubu a fresh term in office.

According to the source, the return of Yakubu as INEC boss was part of a larger ongoing tussle among power brokers in the country to have the agency under their firm control ahead of the 2023 general elections, which to a large extent will determine the fate of the ruling All Progressives Congress.

There are currently at least four power blocs within the APC all fighting to determine persons to occupy key positions in the agency ahead of 2023.

One group is said to be headed by Senate President Lawan, another by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, a third by Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omoagege, while the fourth group comprises key individuals in Aso Rock Villa alongside Bola Tinubu’s caucus.

“In the current struggle to take over INEC, the Aso Rock group took the lead very early to outsmart others when they forwarded the name of Ms Lauretta Onochie as a National Commissioner nominee to replace a South-South candidate, Dr Mustapha Lecky, representing the zone whose tenure elapsed on November 9.

“Unfortunately, Mr Lecky is the INEC chairmanship candidate being sponsored by the Deputy Senate President, Omoagege, hence he vehemently raised legitimate concerns about the credibility of Onochie even though in actual fact, he did that because of the implication of that choice for his own candidate, who is reputed to be the most corrupt national commissioner and a consultant to politicians.

“The Aso Rock group put Onochie forward even when a serving South-South candidate was from the same senatorial zone in Delta State.

“In the haste to extinguish the Deputy Senate President’s candidate, they failed to conduct the required onground diligence in Delta State.

“In any event, the action of the Aso Rock group also took the Senate President's group by surprise when the letter containing the nomination of the INEC National Commissioner nominees including Onochie was sent to the Senate President and it was read on the floor of the Senate.

“The shock and awe tactics by the Aso Rock group pushed the Ahmed Lawan group a few hours later to respond by riding on public sentiments against the nomination, hence, it was reported that the Senate caucus then wrote to the President requesting for another nominee to replace Onochie.

“This was done to enable the Lawan group to perfect their own ongoing compromised negotiations with Prof Yakubu, who was desperate to get a second term and was willing to meet any demands made on him to secure a second term.

“To pre-empt the AGF Malami group that had already pencilled their own chairmanship candidate, who is also a professor from the North, the Lawan group moved quickly ahead of the Malami group to get the nod of President Buhari and immediately Prof Yakubu's reappointment was announced in the media but no letter to the effect was read on the floor of the Senate.

“The procedural omission was to checkmate Malami's group that were also going to get an approval from the President.

“The tragedy of the Presidency at the moment is that any group that gets to the President first, gets endorsement.

“In fact, the recent strategy is to get your nominee for any appointment announced first in the media to commit the government and then get the President's signature on it later.

“That was how the Ahmed Lawan group triumphed for now before the Senate proceeded on recess to deal with the 2021 budget.

“Omoagege's group had been lobbying in the past few months to have Dr Lecky from Edo State as chairman using his Muslim faith to campaign to those around the President.

“Ironically, those who positioned themselves for the interest of Bola Tinubu have not been able to make meaningful in-roads to influence the choice of those to be appointed into the commission.

“As things stand, electoral integrity and the independence of INEC is gone and does not matter in the motivation of any of the contending groups and this portends a grave danger for democracy in Nigeria,” the source disclosed.

This development, according to findings by SaharaReporters, has cast a shadow of doubt over the integrity and fairness of the 2023 general elections under the APC-led federal administration in Nigeria.

On November 12, Hope Democratic Party, one of the parties earlier deregistered by INEC, filed a suit at the Federal High Court to stop the Nigerian Senate from screening Prof Yakubu for a second term in office.

A statement by Auwal Abdullahi for the National Chairman of the party, said that Yakubu’s reappointment did not follow due process as a meeting of the Council of State did not deliberate upon it and approve it as demanded by the 1999 constitution.

No date has been fixed for the hearing, however, Yakubu has stepped aside since November 9 pending his confirmation by the Senate.

Ahmed Muazu is currently heading the electoral agency as Acting Chairman.

This Yakubu is lucky he’s not Chinese. By now the government will be asking his family to refund the cost of the rope used in hanging him.

Any fool can edit Wikipedia.

do you know that you can add to his biography and it will be there for international org to view him for who he was

All of you shouting revolution, we're still waiting o.
All the pastors with unnecessary prophesies, we're still waiting. You guys succeeded in making caricature of Christianity. Shey una dey see unaselves now?

They for give am the Escobar treatment abi?

Freshtruth:
This guy is lucky he is not in Colombia. Those guys don't wait for court judgements they do the judgement themselves

Someone should edit it and put that the idiot oversaw the worst election africa has ever witnessed

Hambivert:
Everyone who celebrates and aids evil and injustice shall always be visited by evil and injustice.

Till now the IReV portal does not have 100% uploaded results.

Nansense and BVAS

Only Baba God can do a perfect erection for you. The earlier you accept this lost the better

Why igbos wan die for this election matter self?
I thought you guys were biafrans

Nigeria's Election was "Free and Fair"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_EjdWM0594

Trollronaldo:
So sad



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmood_Yakubu

Igbos!! All these propagandas cannot help you guys. Just accept defeat and work with this man, i swear you will all enjoy him. I am very sure Tinubu will start projects from the Southeast first.

However, this is what Wikipedia showed me below and not your edited pics. You are enemy of the state.

Freshtruth:
This guy is lucky he is not in Colombia. Those guys don't wait for court judgements they do the judgement themselves

Even El Salvador wey get MS13 don calm down now.

Everything no be by gra gra.

It has been retouched , so nigeria sabi work like this?

Trollronaldo:
So sad



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmood_Yakubu

A failed President
A failed INEC Chairman
A failed Party and Pesidential Candidate.

You have refused Nigerians their joy, you won't know joy either.

MetroLane:
You Put a Muslim in Charge of INEC and you expect a Muslim-Muslim ticket not to win.

All the Urchins that were praising Buhari in the beginning, remember how it ended with you guys swearing for him the past few weeks ago.

Tinubu will be no different, After all, Mc Oluomo's son already said They own Lagos and Nigeria.

Urchins, any of you that dare to leave this country within the next four years. I'm here to tell you that you're going nowhere, if you try it, na Death straight.

AMEN!

Ballzproblem2:
someone edited his profile, I'm sure Wikipedia will change it back and lock it from further editing

Agreed but it's still the truth

This is fake! Edited by IPOB and flat heads from the yeast!

LesbianBoy:
Someone should edit it and put that the idiot oversaw the worst election africa has ever witnessed

In my opinion, this is the most peaceful erection. No post erection violence

Benbellamor:
do you know that you can add to his biography and it will be there for international org to view him for who he was

Your IP address will also be noted, as soon as you do that.

It's NOT like Nairaland, that you can hide under anonymity to some extent.

Be wise.

Freshtruth:
This guy is lucky he is not in Colombia. Those guys don't wait for court judgements they do the judgement themselves

If you guys have the mind, approach and stop talking about another country, you must be igno. No myth

Mynd44 OAM4J go to Wikipedia and see for yourself so you'll know how incompetent the two of you are. This is the second fake news that has been moved to FP from politics section and both of you are the mods there. If it's to ban someone you know how to ban but just to verify a post before moving it to FP you cannot do. Shame on the two of you. @Seun come and see what your mods have turned Nairaland to.

Freshtruth:
This guy is lucky he is not in Colombia. Those guys don't wait for court judgements they do the judgement themselves

Stages of grief and loss.
Denial, anger, curse ,depression, swearing, bargaining and acceptance.

sleek214:

Nothing would've happened.
Obi didn't even make 25% in 24 states.

It was because Obi's votes were given to Tinubu just in those states.

Freshtruth:
This guy is lucky he is not in Colombia. Those guys don't wait for court judgements they do the judgement themselves

just like US in the days of Wild Wild West.
Watch on true life movie "Vengeance" when the court acquitted some mafia accused of killing a police in Atlanta, Georgia The politicians called for action and the townsmen went to the local prison and lynched almost all the acquitted men.

No mind the OP jare.

yinchar:
It will be changed anybody can edit wiki pages.

Ballzproblem2:
someone edited his profile, I'm sure Wikipedia will change it back and lock it from further editing

It will be changed back if the content isn't true. Seems fact imo.

Good name they say, is better than silver and gold.

Abeg jare...make we know what to play with and not. Everything on this platform is legit and authentic and should remain so. Please stop fooling around with such information.

Thanks

This man has so disappointed Nigerians. In some countries, even his dead body won't be found.

Trollronaldo:
So sad



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmood_Yakubu

As for Yakubu Mahmoud, that man who thinks he can play with the minds of over 200 millions. He can't know peace cos this injustice will torment him for certain. He just put himself in the wrong side of posterity and that is what he will only be remembered for. Presiding over the worst election yet under the worst president Nigeria has had yet for the most corrupt presidential candidate yet.

Not interested