CLOSE-UP: This is Ahmad Mu’azu, the man in charge of INEC logistics


There has been a lot of confusion on who actually is in charge of the logistics at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) since the chaos that resulted in the rescheduling of the general election.

Initially, the social media was buzzing with the news that it was Amina Zakari, the national commissioner who was in the news for being related to President Muhammadu Buhari by marriage. Some commented that she sabotaged the election because Buhari was going to lose. However, Zakari left the role in October 2018 when she was redeployed to oversee the health and welfare committee.

Not long after the Zakari rumour died down, word started going round that Okechukwu Ibeanu, a professor of political science and national commissioner in charge of electoral operations and logistics, was the man responsible for the chaos. It was implied that he was working for Atiku Abubakar, Buhari’s main challenger.

Meanwhile, there is yet another committee on logistics for the elections. Headed by Ahmad Tijani Mu’azu, a retired air vice marshal, the ad hoc committee is made up of three national commissioners and representatives from several government agencies, notably customs, immigration, road safety commission,police and armed forces.



What is the difference between the committee headed by Ibeanu and that of Mu’azu — since both deal with logistics? TheCable findings show that the one led by Ibeanu is a standing committee, which is “internal”. It deals with providing ballot papers, ballot boxes and other materials for the elections.

The ad hoc committee headed by Mu’azu, which is “external”, is specifically for the elections and the brief is to receive materials at the airports and send them to the different locations across the country. It is “external” because it is composed mainly of non-INEC members.

In November 2018 when Yakubu announced that Zakari would head the ad hoc committee on collation centre, all eyes were on her and her relationship with Buhari. On the same day, however, Mu’azu was announced as the chairman of the ad hoc committee on logistics. This went virtually unnoticed. Yet, it was perhaps the most important of the committees inaugurated on January 3, 2019.


Mu’azu (first from right) at his swearing-in as INEC commissioner in 2016

Who, then, is Ahmad Tijani Mu’azu?

According to his profile on the INEC website, he was born on September 6, 1957 in Gombe state. He schooled in Gombe, Kaduna and Maiduguri between 1964 and 1975.

In June 1976, he joined the Nigerian air force as a potential pilot and was commissioned pilot officer into air traffic control specialty in 1979.

He holds both civil and military licences with ratings in aerodrome, approach control and approach radar control positions. He was deployed to air traffic control duties for 12 years, from 1979 to 1991, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, and Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano.

Mu’azu had his basic military training at the Nigerian Defence Academy from June to December 1979. He did his junior command and staff course at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC) Jaji in 1988. He attended the senior command and staff course at Ghana Armed Forces Staff College (GAFSC) Teshie, Accra, between 1991 and 1992. He was said to have finished well above average “with a strong recommendation for appointment as a directing staff”.

He was a member of National War College (NEC), Course 12 at the then National War College (now National Defence College), Abuja, from 2003 to 2004 “and graduated, again, with a strong recommendation to return to the college as a directing staff”, according to the profile.

He earned an MSc in strategic studies from the University of Ibadan in 2005.

Mu’azu rose to the professional rank of air vice marshal in 2007 and retired in 2013, after 34 years of service.

TheCable understands that he had been helping INEC with flight issues in the past and this might have influenced the decision to saddle him with the responsibility for logistics for the elections.

“None of the three INEC commissioners in the ad hoc committee had any experience of organising general election in Nigeria, so the chaos was coming,” an INEC official told TheCable.

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Trust me , Those Accursed people's Congress urchins will hide away from these thread immediately they realised its an Hausa man.

Truth is.

Buhari wasted 4 years appointing incompetent people while blaming PDP for his woes.

Instead of humbly asking GEJ how he did it.

Zombies over to you

buharist will avoid this thread because they feed on lies and propaganda

Lalasticlala abeg do justice


Truth must prevail.


No wonder DSS withdraw their alleged invitation

An Islamic zealot

Mitchewww:
Truth is.

Buhari wasted 4 years appointing incompetent people while blaming PDP for his woes.

Instead of humbly asking GEJ how he did it.

Buhari would sooner take a bullet in the head than admit he needs GEJs help for anything! The man is that arrogant and rigid!

We have to get rid of Buhari and Atiku that’s my resolve

This man's picture is a clear representation of what incompetence looks like.

incompetence everywhere

Wailing all over the place .

All of a sudden, because he is not a Professor Okoro, the retired pilot is incompetent and highlights everything wrong with the universe.

naijapips04:

This APC Hausa muslim is the one that frustrated our elections. Hope Nigerians can now see.

Actually you're very wrong.

Prof. Ibeanu was appointed CHAIRMAN of INEC's Electoral Operations and Logistics Committee in October 2018, the commission later set up an ad hoc committee for the 2019 elections in January, a committee headed by Ahmed Mu'azu, a retired air vice marshal

If you were trying to ethnically profile the failure, your statement would be rephrased thus:

naijapips04:

This IPOB Okoro man is the one that frustrated our elections. Hope Nigerians can now see.

I said so earlier.

QuotaSystem:
Wailing all over the place.

All of a sudden, because he is not a Professor Okoro, the retired pilot is incompetent and highlights everything wrong with the universe.

90% of those accusing PMB of being a bigot need to buy a mirror.

Shut up.
Buhari appointed incompetent people to run his government while him and his evil party keep blaming PDP for their failures.

QuotaSystem:
Wailing all over the place.

All of a sudden, because he is not a Professor Okoro, the retired pilot is incompetent and highlights everything wrong with the universe.

90% of those accusing PMB of being a bigot need to buy a mirror.

dude it's very clear that he's incompetent now. we had to cancel an entire election because of his incompetence

meanwhile watch how the disgustingly partisan MODs of this forum ignore this news just so zombies can continue blaming professor Ibeanu that has nothing to do with logistics in this election.


This APC Hausa muslim is the one that frustrated our elections. Hope Nigerians can now see.

omonaijiria:
Lalasticlala abeg do justice


Truth must prevail.


No wonder DSS withdraw their alleged invitation

if you are waiting for MODS that are card carrying members of APC to move this to the front page, then my brother you go wait forever.


I created this same topic 3 days ago but nothing happened.

The want the narrative to remain that it is 'ipob Ibeanu ' that frustrated the elections.

igbos are so marginalized is this shithole .

But Ibeanu has to release the right materials to Muazu and on time too.

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torino88 >=75944561:
incompetence everywhere

naijapips04:


if you are waiting for MODS that are card carrying members of APC to move this to the front page, then my brother you go wait forever.


I created this same topic 3 days ago but nothing happened.

The want the narrative to remain that it is 'ipob Ibeanu ' that frustrated the elections.

igbos are so marginalized is this shithole .

igbos can do no wrong. It is always the other persons fault

Omo this one na jihadist o

all names of People in sensitive positions are virtually all from the North and they are majorly Muslims by theier names u will know them and some people still believe the president is fair in his appointment. Federal Character Principle is not followed under this Buhari administration @ all.

Make i hear say we no vote Buhari out on Saturday

QuotaSystem:
Wailing all over the place .

All of a sudden, because he is not a Professor Okoro, the retired pilot is incompetent and highlights everything wrong with the universe.



Actually you're very wrong.

Prof. Ibeanu was appointed CHAIRMAN of INEC's Electoral Operations and Logistics Committee in October 2018, the commission later set up an ad hoc committee for the 2019 elections in January, a committee headed by Ahmed Mu'azu, a retired air vice marshal

If you were trying to ethnically profile the failure, your statement would be rephrased thus:

Since you refuse to think


Mahmood Yakubu
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2019 Polls: INEC Inaugurates Two Ad Hoc Committees
The two committees, Electoral Logistics and Collation Centre, were inaugurated by the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja

By The Eagle Online On Jan 3, 2019
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The Independent National Electoral Commission on Thursday inaugurated two ad hoc committees as part of its preparations for the forthcoming 2019 general election.
The two committees, Electoral Logistics and Collation Centre, were inaugurated by the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja.
The Electoral Logistics Committee is chaired by INEC National Commissioner,‎ retired Air Vice Marshal Ahmed Mu’azu, with INEC Director of Stores as Secretary.
The committee on Collation Centre is chaired by another National Commissioner, Amina Zakari, and INEC Director, Commission’s Secretariat as Secretary.
While inaugurating the two committees, the INEC chairman said it was another step in the commission’s determination to ensure seamless preparations for the 2019 general elections.

QuotaSystem:
Wailing all over the place .

All of a sudden, because he is not a Professor Okoro, the retired pilot is incompetent and highlights everything wrong with the universe.



Actually you're very wrong.

Prof. Ibeanu was appointed CHAIRMAN of INEC's Electoral Operations and Logistics Committee in October 2018, the commission later set up an ad hoc committee for the 2019 elections in January, a committee headed by Ahmed Mu'azu, a retired air vice marshal

If you were trying to ethnically profile the failure, your statement would be rephrased thus:

What then is the function of logistic ad-hoc committee


Zombie

Hmm..

He looks like an extremist oh..

All extremists love Buhari and APc for the decimation of minorities

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*Christianity and politics by Ogundele Taiye*

Despite the knowledge and Wisdom of this
latter day which Christians representative
know, they still keep mute concerning
politics. This same Jesus we preach about
was ordained to be a governor according to
Matthew ” and the government shall be upon
him”
Some Christians are always in the apathy
side of politics, many times we have heard
people saying “politics is a dirty game” “God
forbid, I don’t want to enter hell fire”.
One young man once explained that his
grandparents and his parents were all pastor,
which made him impossible to talk about
politics at home.
Why are the Church silent about politics
when God has commanded His children to
speak? Been mute is not only defiant
towards God, but it is unloving toward
others. Jesus said that it was the truth that
set us free, not awkward silence. (Jeremiah
26:2) says: “…all the words that I command
you to speak to them; do not hold back a
word.”
In fact, most churches will tell you not to
preach about politics because they don’t
want to lose their members.
This is not exciting of course, but how can
we see the whole word effectively when
Christians are playing the deaf and dump
game toward anything pertaining to politics
Once I was invited to speak in a Christians
youth seminar about politics, I did my best
but it was very difficult to convince them,
the people just sat there wordlessly looking
at me with big eyes, it was difficult to
change them. ‘Nobody want to enter hell’
which is their believe.
Unfortunately this is the conditions of many
Christians when it comes to politics, simply
because they have been brainwashed that
politics is a ticket to hell.
It is time to change the negative image of
the Christians representative towards
politics. Do you think becoming a Christian
has simply bowed you down that you feel it
is not a good ideal to voice out in politics? I
tell you no amount of prayer and fasting we
bring a good government if the Church in
our today society did not participate in
political activities
I wonder how the church claim to love and
care about others when they are not engage
in the arena that shapes basic right and
freedom.
Even Paul understood the need for
Christians participation in government when
he urges that prayers be made “for kings and
all who are in high positions, that we may
lead a peaceful and quiet life” (1 Timothy
2:1-2).
Inevitably, politics shapes our society of
which we all know. It is high time Christians
care about politics and by doing so our own
peace is assured (Jeremiah 29:7) says: “But
seek the welfare of the city where I have sent
you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its
behalf, for in its welfare you will find your
welfare.” God cares deeply about these
issues, and it is therefore not appropriate for
the Church to keep silent in this time.

The man wey sabi.