INEC Confirms No Attack on Chairman Mahmood Yakubu’s Home

INEC has refuted a recent report that claimed its chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, owned a property that was attacked in Bauchi State. Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief Press Secretary to the chairman, released a statement on Saturday asserting that his principal does not own any property and that the rumors are part of a malicious smear campaign. The statement read: “The property being purportedly attacked by some youths in a video clip circulating on the social media does not belong to the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. The INEC Chairman does not own the property in question in either Bauchi or anywhere else around the world. This narrative is indeed the latest in the series of desperate smear campaign efforts by mischief makers. The public should disregard it.”