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Prof Jega steps aside as INEC Chairman. Amb Ahmed Wali takes over.

As the tenure of Professor Attahiru Jega ,the chairman of Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission expired on Tuesday June 30, he has reportedly handed over to  Ambassador (Dr.) Ahmed Wali . Ambassador Wali becomes the new helmsman at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) so as not to create a vacuum in that office and pending a formal appointment of another chairman by the new administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Prof Jega is leaving the Commission after  the conduct of the 2015 general elections in the country which majority of Nigerians and the international community regarded as free and fair elections,and which resulted in an opposition party defeating a seating administration The new INEC boss,Dr. Wali is a graduate of the Usman Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, where he studied Management and thereafter  went on to obtain an MBA from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria Wali is known at the INEC headquarters as the right hand man of...