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Nigerian academic

Mahmood Yakubu (born 1962) is a Nigerian academic and current chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).^[1] Mahmood was appointed to office by President Muhammadu Buhari on 21 October 2015, succeeding Amina Zakari, who served as acting chairman.^[2]

Early life and education

Mahmood Yakubu was born in Bauchi State, Northern Nigeria.

He completed his basic and secondary school education at Kobi Primary School and Government Teachers College, Toro, respectively.^[3][4] He proceeded to the University of Sokoto (now Usmanu Danfodiyo University), where he became the first and, as of 2015, only Nigerian from the North to obtain a first-class degree certificate in history.^[5] At postgraduate level, he studied international relations at Wolfson College, Cambridge,^[6] graduating with master's degree in 1987,^[7] and Nigerian history at the University of Oxford