Amupitan assumes duty as INEC chairman
The new chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Joash Amupitan, on Thursday assumed office at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja.
Mr Amupitan arrived at about 2:40 p.m. in the company with the Acting Chairman, May Agbamuche-Mbu, national commissioners and the secretary to the commission, shortly after he was sworn in at the presidential villa.
He is expected to hold his first meeting with INEC directors and management staff members shortly after preliminary assumption of office protocols.
Mr Amupitan, a legal scholar from Kogi State, is a professor of law at the University of Jos, Plateau State, where he began his academic career in 1989.
(NAN)
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