Professor Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is alive.<\/p>\n
For two days, rumour has been doing the rounds that the INEC boss was dead.<\/p>\n
Pointblanknews.com learnt from a top shot at the INEC that Yakubu just returned from Ghana where he had monitored the presidential poll in that country.<\/p>\n
On getting back to Nigeria, he, on Wednesday, this week, had an engagement with a committee of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n
He also had a quarterly briefing of State RECs on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief Press Secretary to Prof. Yakubu debunked the isolated reports in the social media, announcing the death of the electoral chief.<\/p>\n
In a statement Saturday in Abuja, Oyekanmi said the Commission\u2019s \u201cattention has been drawn to a fake news narrative circulated by a section of the social media claiming the purported death of the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu at a London hospital\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to him, the story first appeared on Monday, December 9.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hereby appeal to the public to disregard the rumour. Prof. Yakubu is alive, hale and hearty.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn fact, he has not travelled to London in the last two years. He was present at an interactive meeting with the House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters on Wednesday, December 11.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe also chaired the Commission\u2019s meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners on Thursday, December 12. Both events were widely covered on television and reported on the front pages of most newspapers yesterday, Friday, December 13.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe public may recall that mischief-makers on the social media carried a similar fake story in 2021. Three years later, they are spreading the same rumour again.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who indulge in this practice, as well as those who spread it, should be mindful of its effect not only on the individual but also the wider society.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Commission will continue to work with genuine media professionals to combat the scourge of fake news and the danger it poses to society,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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