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No, Nigeria’s electoral commission chair Mahmood Yakubu was not arrested in the US<\/em><\/p>\n IN SHORT: <\/strong>Multiple Facebook posts claim that the chairperson of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, has been arrested in the US while on a medical trip. The claim is false.<\/p>\n The chairperson of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission<\/a> (Inec), Prof Mahmood Yakubu<\/a>, has been arrested<\/a> in the US capital, Washington DC. This is according to a post circulating on Facebook since 8…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> No, Nigeria’s electoral commission chair Mahmood Yakubu was not arrested in the US IN SHORT: Multiple Facebook posts claim that the chairperson of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, has been arrested in the US while on a medical trip. The claim is false. The chairperson of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec), Prof […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4304,6412,6274,7239,51126,257,4687,393,5761,254,25788],"class_list":["post-196079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-chair","tag-commission","tag-electoral","tag-mahmood","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-south-africa-today","tag-yakubu"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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