Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has responded to the rumours of his own death.<\/p>\n
Reports have it that he died in a London hospital. Recall that in a social media post, Senator Shehu Sani disclosed that the rumours were not true.<\/p>\n
Yakubu\u2019s Chief Press Secretary, Rotimi Oyekanmi has urged the public to disregard the false information about the death of Professor Yakubu.<\/p>\n
He noted that Professor Yakubu have not travelled to London in the last two years.<\/p>\n
Oyekanmi said, \u201cOur attention has been drawn to a fake news narrative circulated by a section of the social media claiming the purported death of the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu at a London hospital. The story first appeared on Monday, 9th December 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe hereby appeal to the public to disregard the rumour. Prof. Yakubu is alive, hale and hearty. In fact, he has not travelled to London in the last two years.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cHe was present at an interactive meeting with the House of Representatives Committee on Electoral Matters on Wednesday, 11th December 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe public may recall that mischief-makers on the social media carried a similar fake story in 2021. Three years later, they are spreading the same rumour again.”<\/em><\/p>\n He added, \u201cThe Commission will continue to work with genuine media professionals to combat the scourge of fake news and the danger it poses to society.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has responded to the rumours of his own death. Reports have it that he died in a London hospital. Recall that in a social media post, Senator Shehu Sani disclosed that the rumours were not true. Yakubu\u2019s Chief Press Secretary, Rotimi Oyekanmi has urged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2108,2109],"class_list":{"0":"post-17861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"tag-chairman-of-the-independent-national-electoral-commission-inec","9":"tag-professor-mahmood-yakubu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17861"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17864,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17861\/revisions\/17864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}