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Professor Attahiru Jega was chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to which he was appointed in 2010. He had also served on the Justice Muhammed Lawal Uwais Electoral Reform Committee. Prior to his appointment, Professor Jega was the Vice Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, where he also served as a professor of political science. He previously served as the national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. He is a recipient of the Officer of the Federal Republic (OFR) award from Nigeria’s Federal Government and the founding director of the Centre for Democratic Research and Training, “Mambayya House.” He earned his doctorate in political science from Northwestern University and his bachelor’s of science in political science from Bayero University College, Kano.