Presidency debunks sacking or replacing INEC chairman

<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<p>The Presidency has officially denied rumours circulating on social media that <a target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;gistreel&period;com&sol;tag&sol;tinubu"><strong>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu<&sol;strong><&sol;a> approved the removal or replacement of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission &lpar;<a target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;gistreel&period;com&sol;tag&sol;inec"><strong>INEC<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&rpar;&comma; Prof&period; Mahmood Yakubu&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Reacting to the speculation on Monday afternoon&comma; Senior Special Adviser to the President on Digital Media and New Media&comma; O’tega Ogra&comma; took to his &lpar;formerly Twitter&rpar; handle to debunk the reports&comma; describing them as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;fake news&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Disregard any fake news making the rounds about the replacement of the INEC Chairman&period; Any such announcement will come from the SGF’s office or any other official source&comma;”<&sol;em> Ogra posted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width&equals;"560">&NewLine;<p dir&equals;"ltr" lang&equals;"en">CAVEAT&colon; The Nigerian public should disregard any fake news making the rounds about the replacement of the INEC Chairman&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Any such announcement will come from the SGF’s office or any other appropriate official source&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— O’tega Ogra &lpar;&commat;otegaogra&rpar; <a target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;otegaogra&sol;status&sol;1909248584492392611&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">April 7&comma; 2025<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The clarification comes amid growing online chatter and viral posts claiming that a decision had been made by President Tinubu to sack the electoral umpire’s head and install a successor&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; no official communication has been released by the Presidency&comma; the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation &lpar;SGF&rpar;&comma; or INEC itself to confirm any such move&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Prof&period; Mahmood Yakubu&comma; who was reappointed for a second term in 2020 by former President Muhammadu Buhari&comma; has faced mounting criticism over the conduct of <strong>the 2023 general elections<&sol;strong>&period; Still&comma; there has been no indication from the Federal Government of any formal plan to remove him from office&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- CONTENT END 1 --><&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gistreel&period;com&sol;presidency-debunks-sacking-or-replacing-inec-chairman&sol;" previewlistener&equals;"true">Source link <&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;