{"id":5516,"date":"2025-04-07T17:10:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2025-04-07T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T17:10:29","slug":"inec-yakubu-going-nowhere-remains-chairman-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/inec-yakubu-going-nowhere-remains-chairman-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"INEC: Yakubu going nowhere, remains chairman \u2013 Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5517\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/download-2-3-1-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/download-2-3-1-300x168.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/panoramanews.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/download-2-3-1.jpeg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yakubu<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Publisher<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kindly share:<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is not losing sleep over his position as the presidency has assured that his job is not on the line.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Recently, there have been reports that President Bola Tinubu was looking for a replacement for the INEC boss, which have turned out to be fake news, according to the Presidency.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Dismissing the reports, O\u2019tega Ogra,<br \/>\nthe Senior Special Adviser to the president on Digital Media and New Media, said in a statement the reports were false.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cDisregard any fake news making the rounds about the replacement of the INEC Chairman,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny such announcement will come from the SGF\u2019s office or the any other official source.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yakubu By Publisher Kindly share: Mahmood Yakubu, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is not losing sleep&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1253],"class_list":["post-5516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-independent-national-electoral-commission"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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