The Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, has congratulated Professor Mahmood Yakubu on his re-appointment as INEC Chairman.
The National Chairman, Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) ,Dr. Leonard Nzenwa in a press statement said his re-appointment is a welcome development and a blessing to the polity, restating that only few helmsmen at the Commission have been able to achieve respectable results like he has done during his first tenure.
He explained that Prof. Yakubu mounted the saddle of INEC four months after the exit of his predecessor, Prof. Attahiru Jega, who presided over the crucial 2015 general election that ushered President Muhammadu Buhari as president.
The IPAC chairman lauded INEC chairman’s remarkable digitalization programme which has transformed the way elections have been conducted in the country in the last four years.
He said the success of the Edo and Ondo 2020 Gubernatorial Polls are clear examples of the positive technology and digitization trajectory which Prof. Yakubus’ first tenure gave to Nigeria.
He urged Prof. Yakubu to continue with the strident effort to help in reformation of the electoral process, even as it requests the chairman to put his foot down to ensure that Nigerians votes count in all elections in the country going forward.
He called on all stakeholders to work and support the re-appointed INEC chairman effort to make all polls in the country to be inclusive, fair, free and credible.
“It is remarkable that Prof. Mohammood Yakubu’s re-appointment is the first time an INEC chairman is re-appointed in the history of Nigeria,” he said.
