At a glance
- Roles
- academic · Politician
- Region
- West Africa & Sahel
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
Life in time
Place in the story
Unknown (unknown)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
From the university to the elections
Jega became vice-chancellor of Bayero University in 2005 1. On 30 June 2010 President Goodluck Jonathan appointed him chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); he conducted the 2011 general elections and the fiercely contested 2015 elections in which former head of state Muhammadu Buhari achieved Nigeria's first democratic transfer of power to an opposition party 1. His term ended on 30 June 2015 and he returned to Bayero University; in March 2025 President Bola Tinubu appointed him Special Adviser and Coordinator of the Presidential Livestock Reform Initiative 1.
Affiliation, as the sources attest it
The English article used here — a full career biography — makes no statement of Jega's religion at all and names no school for him, and Wikidata's only religion value is Islam 1 2. Public office and national reputation are not attestations, so the data record leaves his school unknown, unflagged: there is no reading standing one attestation short, only an absence.
Sources
- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in
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Sources
- Attahiru Jega — English Wikipedia
- Attahiru Jega — Wikidata Q4818062
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Attahiru Jega”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/attahiru-jega/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.