Kevin Martin, a Republican former
chairman of the Federal Communications
Commission who has worked for the social media platform since 2015, will take on the role on an
interim basis, the company said.
President, ECOWAS Network
of Electoral
Commissions (ECONEC) and
Chairman, Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu (left), Treasurer and
Chairman of CENI Burkina Faso, Mr. Ahmed Newton Barry, Second Vice President
Interim Chairman of CNE Guinea Bissau, Mr. Jose Pedro Sambu and Permanent Secretary, Mr. Francis Gabriel Oke at the International Conference on Opportunities and Challenges in the Use
of Technology in Elections, which began in Abuja on 9th April.
IBC's
chairman, Sir John Vickers, is due to give his first big speech this Saturday on the direction
of reform, ahead
of the
commission's
interim report due to be published in April.