Popular Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Malcolm Omirhobo, on Sunday, June 18, said President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will not remove Professor Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Omirhobo who trended in June 2022 when he appeared at the Supreme Court dressed like a traditional doctor, was reacting to a call by a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba, for Prof.’s Yakubu’s removal.
According to the former NBA president, Yakubu must step down as INEC’s head in order to avoid impeding Nigeria’s electoral reform, according to the Guardian newspaper.
Omirhobo is of the opinion that President Tinubu won’t oust Prof. Yakubu because he “benefited” from the “fraud and rigging” of the INEC chairman.
He wrote on his known Twitter handle:
“Agbakoba calls on Tinubu to remove INEC chairman
“A very tall request . It’s like expecting a lizard to give birth to an alligator . How do you expect a beneficiary of Inec chairman’s fraud and rigging to sack him? Mission impossible.”