President Bola Tinubu has sworn in Professor Joash Amupitan (SAN) as the new Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
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Amupitan took the oath of office at 1:50 p.m. inside the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
During the ceremony, President Tinubu urged the new INEC Chairman to uphold the integrity of Nigeria’s electoral process and work to strengthen the commission’s institutional capacity in delivering credible elections.
Amupitan succeeds Professor Mahmood Yakubu, whose tenure recently came to an end.
He becomes the sixth substantive chairman of the electoral body since its establishment.
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Meanwhile, the new INEC Chairman, Prof. Amupitan, assumed office at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja, after the swearing in.
He arrived at about 2:40 p.m. in the company of the Acting Chairman, Mrs May Agbamuche-Mbu, national commissioners and the secretary to the commission.
He is expected to hold his first meeting with INEC directors and management staff members shortly after preliminary assumption of office protocols.
Amupitan, a legal scholar from Kogi, is a Professor of Law at the University of Jos, where he began his academic career in 1989
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