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Wednesday 1 July 2015

Nigeria: President Buhari appoints Amina Zakari as INEC acting chairman

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mrs Amina Bala Zakari as the acting chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) following the end of Prof Attahiru Jega’s tenure yesterday.
INECThis was disclosed in a statement signed by the director of communications at the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Haruna Imrana.
According to the statement, the head of the civil service of the federation, Barr. Danladi Kifasi, who conveyed the appointment in a letter, said Mrs Zakari’s appointment took immediate effect (from yesterday, June 30, 2015) until the appointment of a substantive chairman.
Zakari is presently a national electoral commissioner at INEC.
In a related development, Jega, a professor of political economy, finally bowed out of office yesterday.

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