President Bola Tinubu has sworn in Professor Joash Amupitan (SAN) as the brand new Chairman of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, INEC.
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Amupitan took the oath of workplace at 1:50 p.m. contained in the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Through the ceremony, President Tinubu urged the brand new INEC Chairman to uphold the integrity of Nigeria’s electoral course of and work to strengthen the fee’s institutional capability in delivering credible elections.
Amupitan succeeds Professor Mahmood Yakubu, whose tenure just lately got here to an finish.
He turns into the sixth substantive chairman of the electoral physique since its institution.
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In the meantime, the brand new INEC Chairman, Prof. Amupitan, assumed workplace on the fee’s headquarters in Abuja, after the swearing in.
He arrived at about 2:40 p.m. within the firm of the Appearing Chairman, Mrs Could Agbamuche-Mbu, nationwide commissioners and the secretary to the fee.
He’s anticipated to carry his first assembly with INEC administrators and administration workers members shortly after preliminary assumption of workplace protocols.
Amupitan, a authorized scholar from Kogi, is a Professor of Legislation on the College of Jos, the place he started his tutorial profession in 1989
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