President Muhammadu
Buhari has announced a professor of political history and international
studies, Mahmood Yakubu, as new chairman of the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC)
Yakubu, a professor
of political history and international studies, was Executive Secretary of
the Tertiary Education Trust Fund.
He is an expert in guerrilla warfare,
terrorism and counter-terrorism.
He was an Assistant Secretary,
Finance and Administration, at the 2014 National Conference under the Jonathan
led administration.
Professor Yakubu, is the first and
only first class graduate of history from the North till date,who was on
secondment from the Nigeria Defense Academy where he was a lecturer to the
Federal Ministry of Education.
He was a member of the very dynamic
Oby Ezekwesili Educational Transformation Team which received plaudits from
Nigerians for their far reaching recommendations for the turn around of the fortunes
of education in Nigeria.
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