ABUJA — It was the end of an era, yesterday, when the former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, formally handed over to Amb. Ahmed Wali as acting chairman of the electoral body.


Following the handover, Jega said the future of the country and the commission were in safe hands.

However, after about eight hours as acting chairman, Wali was replaced as acting chairman by President Muhammadu Buhari who designated another national commissioner, Mrs. Amina Bala Zakari as acting chairman.

Jega, who was appointed five years ago by former President Goodluck Jonathan, bowed out with six national commissioners who were appointed the same day with him.

The commissioners who retired with Jega yesterday were Cojl. M.K. Hammanga (Adamawa), Dr Ishmael Igbani (Rivers), Prof. Lai Olurode (Osun), Dame Gladys Nwafor (Abia), Mrs Thelma Iremiren (Delta) and Dr Nuru Yakubu (Yobe).

The future is bright —Jega

Speaking with newsmen shortly after he bowed out, Jega expressed appreciation for the opportunity given to him and other INEC management staff to serve the country.

He said: “We feel great; we thank God Almighty for the opportunity to serve the country. The future is bright for the commission and the country.”


Though the brief hand-over ceremony was a closed-door event, secretary to the commission, Augusta Ogakwu, told Vanguard that it was just for the former chairman to hand over to another person since the Federal Government has not appointed a substantive chairman for the commission.

She explained that Wali was selected because his tenure will expire on August 11 with the hope that by then the government may have taken a decision on who to give the responsibility of running the commission for the next five years.

The secretary also revealed that in his farewell message, Jega urged the commission to ensure that whatever thing that has been gained in election management must not be allowed to go down because the people of Nigeria and indeed the world must have taken interest in the country’s election management system.

She said: “It was just a brief ceremony for the chairman to hand over to one of the commissioners, Amb. Wali, whose tenure will expire on August 11 and the Chairman has handed over to him pending the appointment of a substantive chairman by the government or pending when his tenure expires but we believe that we will soon hear from the government what will happen next.”

Following the handover to Wali, the Head of Service of the federation, Mr Danladi Kifasi in a statement announced President Buhari’s decision to appoint Mrs. Zakari as acting national chairman of the commission. He said the appointment is with effect from June 30, 2015 until the appointment of a substantive chairman.

Mrs Zakari is senior to Wali and she is due for retirement July 31.

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drama ko prose ni

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Who care

So, what drama?

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The future is bright --- Jega

July 31 is too close for PMB to appoint a new chairman when he can't even appoint a chief of staff...

One thing PMB needs to be told is that there are over 500appointments he needs to make right away...and he alone cannot pick all those people...that is why we have a political party of people with like minds and shared manifesto who should be allowed to make recommendations to him. He should be rest assured that whoever is appointed will not only be loyal to him rather than the guy who even recommended him in the first place (ask wike gej and amaechi) but in fact, the person will do his best to impress him. Finally, he still has the power to fire such person when he ever finds time to personally assess the persons performance.

So there is absolutely no reason for leaving governance in the hands of civil servants when we all know the amount of corruption, indiscipline and rot that has gotten into the civil service today which really needs cleansing by seasoned technocrats ( elrufai accidental public servant 2012).

The more you delay, the more corruption over takes ur government and you shall gt the shagari treatment.

and the drama of denials continue

Buhari is thinking ahead, rumour has it Mrs. Zakari is Buhari's own Prof Maurice Iwu.

GEJ remains the only true guarantor of free and fair election.

Seems Non payment of salaries is the new Destroy strategy of the APC!!

temitemi1:
Who care

Maltina cares

Mogidi:
Buhari is thinking ahead.

Am telling you... 2019 in mind

Who cares; they are both northerners.

soe:
July 31 is too close for PMB to appoint a new chairman when he can't even appoint a chief of staff...

One thing PMB needs to be told is that there are over 500appointments he needs to make right away...and he alone cannot pick all those people...that is why we have a political party of people with like minds and shared manifesto who should be allowed to make recommendations to him. He should be rest assured that whoever is appointed will not only be loyal to him rather than the guy who even recommended him in the first place (ask wike gej and amaechi) but in fact, the person will do his best to impress him. Finally, he still has the power to fire such person when he ever finds time to personally assess the persons performance.

So there is absolutely no reason for leaving governance in the hands of civil servants when we all know the amount of corruption, indiscipline and rot that has gotten into the civil service today which really needs cleansing by seasoned technocrats.

The more you delay, the more corruption over takes ur government and you shall gt the shagari treatment.

Word!

What is d name of d drama??

osizi06:
What is d name of d drama??

Question for the gods

Dulladihno acting on instinct since the stone age.

A storm is coming...

yawnsss

Everything going into the hands of the same people
Chanji

vanguard and sensational news report again.
"She explained that Wali was selected because his tenure will expire on August 11 with the hope that by then the government may have taken a decision on who to give the responsibility of running the commission for the next five years."

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baba! baba!!

What's the drama here now for crying out loud!

Naija journalism self!.. Rubbish!

Buhari doesn't want to be betrayed by a Jega appointee like he did to GEJ when he was silent over accusations and propaganda by APC that GEJ withdrew his security details and asked him to proceed on terminal leave until his last days in office when he openly refuted all the APC allegations against GEJ.

wey the drama?

In the first place, does Jega has the right to on his own to decide who to hand over to?

Mod, please remove this stuff from the front page

I reserve My comment till I see Minister nominees.God bless NIG. .

This is only happen in country that has no functional government .everybody is a captain. buhari why?