4 INEC commissioners tipped
to replace Attahiru Jega
Dr. Mohammed Wali from Sokoto State, Mrs.
Amina Zakari from Jigawa State, Colonel
Mohammed Kurmi Hammanga (rtd.) from
Adamawa State and Dr. Ishmael Igbani from
Rivers State are among the names being tipped
to replace Professor Attahiru Jega, the INEC
chairman. The veteran political scientist, who is
a former vice chancellor of Bayero University,
Kano, was appointed in June 2009 and is
expected to complete his 5-year tenure on 30th
June 2015.
There are however reports that the
Federal Government may ask Jega to hand over
to one of the INEC commissioners and also
proceed on a 3-month terminal leave.
Contrary to this, President Goodluck Jonathan
had during the presidential media chat on 11th
February 2015 reassured Nigerians that he had
no plan to remove Jega from office. However
speaking at a press conference on Friday, the
Supervising Minister of Information, Mr. Edem
Duke said the President had no plan to sack
Jega, but disclosed “That is not to say that if it
is time for the INEC chairman to naturally exit
his office, then the natural course of things will
not take place. It is like saying a civil servant
has done 35 years or achieved the age of 60; we
now begin to say that he must not retire or he
must retire.”
to replace Attahiru Jega
Dr. Mohammed Wali from Sokoto State, Mrs.
Amina Zakari from Jigawa State, Colonel
Mohammed Kurmi Hammanga (rtd.) from
Adamawa State and Dr. Ishmael Igbani from
Rivers State are among the names being tipped
to replace Professor Attahiru Jega, the INEC
chairman. The veteran political scientist, who is
a former vice chancellor of Bayero University,
Kano, was appointed in June 2009 and is
expected to complete his 5-year tenure on 30th
June 2015.
There are however reports that the
Federal Government may ask Jega to hand over
to one of the INEC commissioners and also
proceed on a 3-month terminal leave.
Contrary to this, President Goodluck Jonathan
had during the presidential media chat on 11th
February 2015 reassured Nigerians that he had
no plan to remove Jega from office. However
speaking at a press conference on Friday, the
Supervising Minister of Information, Mr. Edem
Duke said the President had no plan to sack
Jega, but disclosed “That is not to say that if it
is time for the INEC chairman to naturally exit
his office, then the natural course of things will
not take place. It is like saying a civil servant
has done 35 years or achieved the age of 60; we
now begin to say that he must not retire or he
must retire.”
