{"id":1193,"date":"2025-04-08T00:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T00:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2025-04-08T00:18:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T00:18:20","slug":"presidency-says-inec-chairman-not-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/2025\/04\/08\/presidency-says-inec-chairman-not-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency says, INEC Chairman Not Replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presidency Says, INEC Chairman Not Replaced<\/p>\n<p>Zainab Tanimu<\/p>\n<p>Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>The presidency has debunked the news making the rounds that the current Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has been replaced.<\/p>\n<p>This was refuted by the Senior Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Digital Media and New Media, O\u2019tega<\/p>\n<p>Ogra, on his\u00a0 X handle described it as \u2018fake news.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cDisregard any fake news making the rounds about the replacement of the INEC Chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Any such announcement will come from the SGF\u2019s office or any other official source.\u201d<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-222\" src=\"http:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/REFRESH-TEA-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/REFRESH-TEA-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/REFRESH-TEA.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-225\" src=\"http:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/young-black-couple-drinking-tea-outdoors-enjoying-picnic-autumn-park-panorama-romantic-black-couple-drinking-tea-outdoors-192546848_copy_748x450-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/young-black-couple-drinking-tea-outdoors-enjoying-picnic-autumn-park-panorama-romantic-black-couple-drinking-tea-outdoors-192546848_copy_748x450-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/young-black-couple-drinking-tea-outdoors-enjoying-picnic-autumn-park-panorama-romantic-black-couple-drinking-tea-outdoors-192546848_copy_748x450.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>REFRESH TEA:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Health Benefits (Treatment)<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>*Refreshes the spirit\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>*Clears throat\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>*Clears heat<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>*Improves the eyes\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>*Clears radiation\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>*Good for computer users<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>*Anti stress<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Contact us on WhatsApp number\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>08133460673<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Also debunking the rumours, Tinubu\u2019s Special Adviser on Policy Communication, Daniel Bwala, said the rumours are not true.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He wrote on social media \u201cThe story trending across media platforms to the effect that Mr President @officialABAT has either sacked the INEC chairman or has replaced the INEC chairman is not true and should be discountenanced.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cDecisions and or official acts of Mr President are communicated through official channels and not rumor mill.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>Professor Mahmood Yakubu&#8217;s tenure ends in November 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidency Says, INEC Chairman Not Replaced Zainab Tanimu Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria The presidency has debunked the news making the rounds that the current Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has been replaced. This was refuted by the Senior Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Digital Media and New Media, O\u2019tega [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}