The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, is briefing the Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, on the preparations of the electoral umpire for the 2023 elections.
The Presidential and National Assembly elections, which will hold on February 25 is only 17 days away.
Also expected to brief Council is the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, but he was not yet in Council when the meeting commenced at 9:58 am.
Before Yakubu briefed Council members, a minute silence was observed in honour of Air Commodore Dan Suleiman (retd), a former Minister of Special Duties, under General Yakubu Gowon.
He was a member of General Murtala Muhammed’s Supreme Military Council between July 1975 and March 1976, and was military Governor of Plateau from March 1976 to July 1978 after it had been created from part of the old Benue.
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