{"id":29949,"date":"2025-10-16T16:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/?p=29949"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:39:25","slug":"breaking-senate-confirms-joash-amupitan-as-new-inec-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/breaking-senate-confirms-joash-amupitan-as-new-inec-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Joash Amupitan as New INEC Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Senate has confirmed <strong>Joash Amupitan<\/strong> as the new Chairman of the <strong>Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amupitan, a Professor of Law, was approved by the upper chamber on Thursday following his screening session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the exercise, he responded to key questions from senators on issues relating to elections, administration, policy, and the Electoral Act, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recall that President <strong>Bola Ahmed Tinubu<\/strong> had on Tuesday requested the Senate to confirm Amupitan as the new INEC Chairman after the tenure of <strong>Prof Mahmood Yakubu<\/strong> expired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tinubu\u2019s request was conveyed in a letter read during plenary by <strong>Senate President Godswill Akpabio<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, after his confirmation, <strong>Amupitan<\/strong> is expected to take the oath of office to be administered by the President.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has confirmed Professor Joash Amupitan as INEC Chairman to replace Mahmood Yakubu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[971,2387,1472],"class_list":["post-29949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-inec","tag-joash-ojo-amupitan","tag-senate","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideemlawful.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}