Professor Attahiru Jega has been officially named as new Chairman of the Nigerian Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
His appointment was approved at today's meeting of the Council of State, a body largely composed of former Heads of State.
It was gathered that Jega's name and of all those nominated to fill vacant commissioner slots in the Commission will be sent to the National Assembly for ratification.
Jega (OFR) is Professor of Political Science at the Bayero University, Kano (BUK).He became the Vice Chancellor of the university in 2005. His tenure as Vice Chancellor is supposed to end in October this year.
As BUK’s helmsman, Jega, now on the other side of the divide, found himself in contention with his colleagues over similar issues over which he and other ASUU executives had confronted the Federal Government, about 18 years earlier.
But with the experience he had gathered as a former union leader, Jega skillfully doused the tension and peace reigned at the university. Jega has also been linked with fundamental changes that have occurred so far at BUK, although, critics still accused of him of being slow in taking decisions on some major issues.
Professor Attahiru Jega is an ideologically focused intellectual. He leans towards the left ideologically. To the liberal, he is a radical. He is one of the few "unrepentant optimist" that fought and believed that Nigeria will one day be freed from the shackles of the military; and that democracy will not only prevail but will become a way of life
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