May Agbamuche-Mbu has assumed office as the Acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) following the exit of Professor Mahmood Yakubu.
Yakubu announced his handover to Agbamuche-Mbu on Tuesday during a meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) at the commission’s headquarters in Abuja.
Until her appointment, Agbamuche-Mbu served as INEC’s National Commissioner in charge of Edo, Rivers, and Bayelsa States.
A legal practitioner with over three decades of experience, Agbamuche-Mbu hails from Delta State but was born in Kano.
She attended St. Louis Secondary School and obtained an LLB in Law from the Obafemi Awolowo University in 1984. She was called to the Nigerian Bar the following year.
Agbamuche-Mbu later attended the College of Law in London and qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.
She also holds an LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, as well as postgraduate degrees in International Dispute Resolution and International Business Law.
An expert in Alternative Dispute Resolution, she is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), Nigeria Branch, where she once served as Secretary.
Between March 2010 and November 2011, she served as the sole solicitor on the Presidential Projects Assessment Committee (PPAC). She was also a member of the Ministerial Committee that developed the Road Map for the Solid Minerals Sector in 2016.
Before joining INEC, Agbamuche-Mbu was the managing partner at Norfolk Partners, a Lagos-based law firm.
She also worked as editor of THISDAY Lawyer, a weekly legal supplement of THISDAY newspaper, where she published over 120 columns under the title “Legal Eagle” between 2014 and 2016.
