Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that the nomination of the immediate-past chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (EFCC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, as Ambassador by President Bola Tinubu, has presented a terrible optics for the administration, which, according to him, was already battling with credibility issues. LEADERSHIP reports that the Presidency had at [ ]
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Yakubu’s Ambassadorial Nomination ‘Terrible Optics’ For Tinubu Administration — Atiku
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