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No plan to remove INEC chairman - Presidency
Author: Adeola Opeyemi
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Category: Local news, Politics
- The Presidency has announced that President Muhammadu Buhari is not planning to remove INEC chairman
- The Presidency's statement claimed after PDP alleged plots to remove INEC chairman
- Reacting to the PDP's statement, the Presidency said anyone saying the president is removing INEC chairman is just displaying his illiteracy
The Presidency has debunked claims by the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, that President Muhammadu Buhari is plottig to remove the Independent National Electoral (INEC) chairman, Mahmood Yakubu.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said there is no plan whatsoever to remove Yakubu as INEC chairman.
Shehu said: “Those reports are utterly baseless and false. There is nothing like that.
“Whoever is saying the president is removing INEC chairman is just displaying his illiteracy. Let him go and read the constitution.
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“You need a resolution by two-thirds majority of the Senate for any such action.”
Meanwhile, gictz news earlier reported that the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, reportedly confirmed Senator Mohammed Musa, a senatorial candidate in Niger state, as a registered contractor of the commission.
Yakubu confirmed this on Saturday, February 16, the day the presidential election was supposed to hold but was postponed.
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Yakubu, at a stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja, admitted that the Musa, a candidate for Niger East senatorial district, was a registered contractor with the electoral umpire.
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