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| Mohammed Wali |
Attahiru Jega has handed
over the chairmanship of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)
to Mohammed Wali, a national commissioner of the electoral body from the
north-west.
Jega handed over to Wali
at the INEC headquarters in Abuja.
Six other national
commissioners also ended their tenure. They are: M.K. Hammanga, Adamawa
state, (northeast); Ishmael Igbani, Rivers state, (south south); Lai Olurode,
Osun state, (south west); Gladys Nwafor, Abia state, (south east); Thelma
Iremiren, Delta state, (south south); and Nuru Yakubu, Yobe state, (north
east).
While his five-year
tenure lasted, Jega conducted two general elections in 2011 and 2015 and the
elections were adjudged to be better than some of the previous ones.
TheCable report continues:
Last week, Jega, a former
vice-chancellor of the Bayero University Kano (BUK) and a former president of the
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), said he would be returning to the classroom after leaving INEC.
The tenure of the new
acting chairman will end on August 11, 2015.
An indigene of Sokoto
state, Wali obtained his first degree from Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto
and an MBA from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaira.
He was elected into the
senate in 1999 and was appointed to committees on selection, senate services,
public accounts, defense and federal character.
Wali also served as the
senate leader between June 1999 and November 1999.
In 2003, he contested the
governorship election under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Former president Olusegun
Obasanjo appointed him Minister for the National Planning Commission (NPC)
and later Deputy Chairman in 2007.
He has also served as
Nigeria’s ambassador to Morocco.
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