Professor Attahiru Muhammadu Jega is a
Nigerian academic and Vice-Chancellor of
Bayero University, Kano . On 8 June 2010 he was
nominated by President Goodluck Jonathan as
the new Chairman of the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC), subject to Senate
confirmation, as a replacement for Professor
Maurice Iwu, who vacated the post on 28 April
2010.
Early life and academic career
Jega was born on 11 January 1957 in Jega ,
Kebbi State . He attended Sabon Gari Town
Primary School, Jega between 1963 and 1969
and proceeded to Government Secondary School,
Birnin Kebbi and then was admitted into The
Ahmadu Bello University Zaria's Bayero
University College, Kano in 1974, graduating in
1979 with a Second Class Upper Division BSc
degree in Political Science. He worked as a
teaching assistant at Bayero University, then
won a fellowship at Northwestern University,
Evanston, Illinois in the United States (1981–
1984) where he earned a PhD in Political
Sciences. He returned to the Political Science
Department in Bayero University in 1984 as a
lecturer.
Other appointments included visiting Senior
Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of
International Affairs, Lagos (March 1992 –
March 1993), visiting Research Fellow,
Department of Political Science, University of
Stockholm, Sweden (1994), Deputy Vice-
chancellor (Academic), Bayero University
(1995–1996) and director, Centre for
Democratic Research and Training, Bayero
University (2000–2004). Jega was appointed
Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University in 2005.


Political activity
Jega is a former President of the Academic
Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), and was an
opponent of the Babangida military government
in the early 1990s. Politically leaning towards
the left, as ASUU President he was closely
associated with the Nigeria Labour Congress
(NLC), and continued that connection throughout
his career. On 29 April 2010 he was guest
lecturer for the NLC May Day celebration where
he presented a paper on 50 Years of Nationhood:
Challenges of Good Democratic Governance,
Credible Election and the Working Class .He
is widely seen as an astute intellectual with a
strong sense of ethics and morality.
Jega was appointed a member of the Justice
Mohammed Uwais Electoral Reform Committee,
which submitted a report on 11 December 2008
with recommendations that included establishing
commissions to deal with Electoral Offences,
Constituency Delimitation and Political Parties
Registration and Regulation. The committee also
recommended proportional representation and
that the INEC head should be appointed by the
judiciary rather than the President.
On the 28 of March 2015, under his leadership,
elections were conducted in what Nigerians and
World see as free, fair and credible which
declared the APC Presidential candidate General
Muhammadu Buhari as winner defeating the
Incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.

INEC nomination
Jega's nomination as INEC chairman followed
approval by a meeting of the National Council of
State called by President Jonathan and attended
by former heads of state Yakubu Gowon ,
Muhammadu Buhari, Ibrahim Babangida ,
Abdulsalami Abubakar, Ernest Shonekan ,
Olusegun Obasanjo and Shehu Shagari . The
Senate President David Mark , Speaker of the
House of Representatives Oladimeji Bankole , and
most of the state Governors also attended the
meeting. Unanimous approval by the council of
the nominee for this critical appointment avoided
controversy about whether or not the President
should appoint the chairman of the INEC.
Reactions to the announcement from a broad
spectrum of political leaders and organisations
were positive, although some voiced concern
that it could be too late to implement real
reforms before the 2011 elections.
During the campaigning for the 2015 Nigerian
general election, Attiru Jega "faced fierce
criticism from both the opposition and the ruling
party." [8] Nonetheless, a 23 March 2015 article
in Vanguard asserted that "most experts believe
Jega will seek to declare an accurate result as
quickly as possible, regardless of any political
interference he may face."

Source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attahiru_Jega

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