INEC Chairman, Prof Yakubu Mahmood
Leaders from the Southern and North Central Nigeria have demanded the elimination of the chairman of the Independent National electoral Commission, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu.
Speaking beneath the aegis of the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders Forum, the leaders expressed worry that the commission could not ship free and truthful elections in 2019.
The Forum made this place recognized at a press convention in Abuja on Sunday.
In attendance had been 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, mentioned, “From 1960 until date, solely President Muhammadu Buhari has been audacious to choose solely people who find themselves both his relations or of the identical ethnic inventory with him to steer the electoral physique.
“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).”