{"id":105461,"date":"2023-06-15T17:30:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=105461"},"modified":"2023-06-15T17:30:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T16:30:56","slug":"agbakoba-asks-tinubu-to-remove-inec-chair-after-efcc-cbn-chiefs-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/agbakoba-asks-tinubu-to-remove-inec-chair-after-efcc-cbn-chiefs-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Agbakoba Asks Tinubu To Remove INEC Chair After EFCC, CBN Chiefs\u2019 Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1768779649078074681\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba has asked President Bola Tinubu to remove the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmoud Yakubu.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe senior lawyer, in a statement on Thursday, said the 61-year-old INEC boss must leave office by resignation or removal, otherwise the electoral reform task in Nigeria will be impeded.<\/p>\n<p>In the statement by his Media Assistant, Niyi Odunmorayo, Agbakoba commended the President for \u201cgetting rid\u201d Godwin Emefiele as the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); and AbdulRasheed Bawa as the Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).<\/p>\n<p>The senior lawyer said, \u201cFull congratulations go to President Tinubu for getting rid of Emefiele and Bawa and fuel subsidy and forex corruption. Endemic corruption has suffered a massive blow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNext is for the president to dismantle INEC. Everyone will agree that logistically, the 2023 elections are the worst in our history. I do not refer to the merits of the results of the elections. Many results are disputed and are in Tribunals. Both petitioners and respondents suffered at the hands of an incompetent INEC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we await rulings from the courts massive reforms of the electoral framework ought to begin but this means that the INEC Chairman will have to leave office by resignation or removal, otherwise the reform task will be impeded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI add very quickly that the suggested reforms have nothing to do with the merits of election results at all. Both winners and losers of the elections were victims of the failure of INEC. Confidence in Nigeria\u2019s democracy will be enhanced by a deep cleansing of INEC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Yakubu as INEC chair in November 2015 to succeed Attahiru Jega, who supervised the 2015 general elections. 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