Tinubu accepts Yakubu’s exit as INEC chair, honours him with national award

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has accepted the departure of Professor Mahmood Yakubu arsenic Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), pursuing the expiration of his 2nd word successful office.

Yakubu, who was archetypal appointed successful November 2015 arsenic the 14th president of the committee for a five-year tenure, had his assignment renewed successful 2020. His tenure officially ended with the expiration of his 2nd term.

In a connection issued connected Monday by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President connected Information and Strategy, Tinubu expressed appreciation for Yakubu’s services to the federation and his contributions to Nigeria’s antiauthoritarian growth.

“President Tinubu thanked Professor Yakubu for his services to the federation and his efforts to prolong Nigeria’s democracy, peculiarly done the organisation of escaped and just elections passim his two-term tenure,” the connection read.

In designation of his service, the President conferred connected Yakubu the nationalist honour of Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON).

President Tinubu besides directed that May Agbamuche-Mbu, the astir elder nationalist commissioner astatine INEC, should presume enactment of the committee successful an acting capableness pending the assignment of a substantive successor.

“Professor Yakubu should manus implicit to the astir elder nationalist commissioner, May Agbamuche-Mbu, who volition nonstop the affairs of the committee until the completion of the process to name a successor,” Onanuga said.

In his response, Professor Yakubu expressed gratitude to President Tinubu for the accidental to service the state implicit the past decade.

In a missive dated October 3, 2025, Yakubu thanked the President “for the accidental to service the federation arsenic president of the committee since 2015.”

Yakubu’s exit marks the extremity of a decade-long enactment astatine the electoral assemblage during which helium presided implicit 2 wide elections (2019 and 2023) and respective off-cycle polls.

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