Jega to retire on June 30, Rules Out Tenure Renewal

The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has said that he would leave office when his tenureends on June 30.
This is coming on the heels of the tragic death of Alhaji Mukaila Abdullahi, INEC’s Resident Electoral Commissioner for Kano State during a fire incident in his house. Abdullahi’s last official assignment was the conduct of last Saturday’s Presidential electionin thestate.
Jega, who was appointed in June 2010, told the BBC Hausa Service monitored in Abuja on Wednesday that he would not accept a tenure extension or renewal when his tenure expires on June 30.
The INEC chairman, who was a serving Vice Chancellor of Bayero University Kano before his appointment in June 2010, said during the interview: "I am grateful to God. I was asked to come and contributemy own quota tothe national developmentand I have done mybit to the bestof myability.
“Whatever assignment one will do for five years – just like this difficult one, to me if one is able to successfully accomplish the task, someone else should be given the next opportunity. For me, I am not interested and if I am requestedto serve again, I will not do it, by God’s grace.”
Kano REC killed…
Police authorities has confirmed the death of the Kano State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Alhaji Mukaila Abdullahi in a mysterious fire which also claimed the lives of his wife and two daughters yesterday morning.
But the police ruled out foul play in the deaths which occurred at his residence located on No. 2, Sir Kashim Ibrahim Road, Nasarawa GRA.
Addressing reporters in his office on Friday, thestateCommissioner of Police Mr. Ibrahim Idris said preliminary investigation confirmed that Abdullahi and members of his family died out of suffocation arising from a fire, suspected to have emanated from electrical fault.
The police commissioner dismissed insinuations that the INEC boss must have been assassinated, saying there was no trace of sabotage at thesceneof the incident.
"Today (Friday) at about 4:30 a.m., the police men on guard duty at the official residence of the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Kano State, located at No. 2 Sir Kashim Ibrahim Road, Nassarawa GRA, Kano, observed a fire emanating from split air condition in the sittingroom.
"They made several attempts to get in touch with him including banging the doors and breaking some of thetoilets windows but he was not responding. The police men and local guards broke the door leading to the sittingroom, and discovered the sitting room was engulfed by fire and smoke.
"They then went to the side of the door leading to the masters bedroom, broke the door and entered; they were not inside the bedroom and the Police then went to the bathroom, inside the master bedroom and found the REC, his wife and his two daughtersunconscious on the floor.
"They quickly moved them to Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital where the Doctor confirmed them dead. The Doctor confirmed the family died from inhalation of hot and black smoke.
"Meanwhile, the detectives attached to SCID sealed the scene and together with the fire service men have commenced thorough investigation into the fire incident," CP Idris stated.