{"id":67291,"date":"2025-06-04T11:47:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67291"},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:47:04","slug":"amaechi-accuses-inec-chairman-mahmood-yakubu-of-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/04\/amaechi-accuses-inec-chairman-mahmood-yakubu-of-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaechi Accuses INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu of Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has accused the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, of exhibiting bias in the discharge of his duties.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Tuesday, the former Governor of Rivers State claimed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would not have been registered or won the 2015 general elections if Yakubu had been INEC chairman at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Amaechi praised former INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, for his role in facilitating a transparent electoral process that enabled the APC\u2019s registration and eventual victory in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current chairman of INEC, if he were in charge in 2015, we would not have won,\u201d Amaechi said. \u201cMay God bless Jega, because the ground rules were clear. When we sought registration as APC, Jega opened the door, and we complied with the requirements. He got APC registered. The current chairman, even if you meet all the conditions, wouldn\u2019t register you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further alleged that the present INEC administration is already showing signs of partiality. \u201cINEC is already biased,\u201d he said. \u201cWhen you look at how elections have been conducted in Nigeria, even Option A4 gave us more transparency. At least then, you could clearly see what was going on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut now, we are back to the days of people like (Maurice) Iwu and the current chairman, and things have worsened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amaechi concluded by expressing concern about what he described as a \u201cstate capture\u201d of the electoral system, warning that Nigeria&#8217;s democracy is being undermined through manipulation of electoral institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has accused the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, of exhibiting bias in the discharge of his duties. Speaking on Tuesday, the former Governor of Rivers State claimed that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would not have been registered or won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":67292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-67291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67293,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67291\/revisions\/67293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}