BREAKING: INEC Commissioner Resigns After Yakubu’s Handing Over

A national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abubakar Nahuche, has resigned from the commission.

Nahuche’s resignation came after Professor Mahmood Yakubu handed over the chairmanship of the commission to Air Vice Marshal Muazu Ahmed (rtd).

The commissioner’s resignation was announced by INEC on Monday.

“INEC National Commissioner and chairman, Estate, Works and Transport Committee, representing North-West, Abubakar Nahuche, resigned his appointment on personal reasons and the President has accepted his resignation and thanked him for his services to the nation,” the INEC National Commissioner and Chairman for Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, was quoted to have said by Punch.

Okoye also confirmed that five commissioners, whose tenure had expired, retired from the commission during Yakubu’s handing over on Monday.

They are: Hajiya Amina Zakari, Prof. Antonia Taiye Okoosi-Simbine, Alhaji Baba Shettima Arfo, Dr. Mohammed Mustafa Lecky, and Prince Adedeji Solomon Soyebi.