{"id":275160,"date":"2020-10-28T11:38:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=275160"},"modified":"2020-10-28T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T10:39:33","slug":"inec-ipac-reacts-as-buhari-reappoints-yakubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=275160","title":{"rendered":"INEC: IPAC reacts as Buhari reappoints Yakubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has congratulated Prof. Mahmood Yakubu on his re-appointment as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).<\/p>\n<p>The body advised him to continue with the electoral reforms he initiated.<\/p>\n<p>National Chairman, Leonard Nzenwa, in a statement on Wednesday, said Yakubu\u2019s re-appointment was good for Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Nzenwa noted that the electoral chief did well in his first term.<\/p>\n<p>He lauded Yakubu\u2019s digitalization programme, pointing out that it has transformed the conduct of elections in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Nzenwa added that the, \u201csmooth conduct\u201d of Edo and Ondo governorship elections confirmed that the technology INEC deployed was effective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge him to continue with the strident effort to help in reformation of the electoral process, even as we urge the chairman to put his foot down to ensure that Nigerians\u2019 votes count in all elections in the country going forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC) has congratulated Prof. Mahmood Yakubu on his re-appointment as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The body advised him to continue with the electoral reforms he initiated. National Chairman, Leonard Nzenwa, in a statement on Wednesday, said Yakubu\u2019s re-appointment was good for Nigeria. Nzenwa noted that the electoral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":275161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,7699],"class_list":["post-275160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-ipac"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/275161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}