Drunk Metabolite

This is May Agbamuche-Mbu, the NEPO daughter of a former Attorney-General of Nigeria, Late Michael Ashikodi Agbamuche (SAN) who was Nigeria’s Attorney-General and Minister of Justice from September 1994 to 1997. May is a benefactor of political fathers fixing their kids for continuous enjoyment, she was born in Kano, Nigeria though she is an indigene of Delta State. She Attended St. Louis Secondary School in Kano and later obtained her LL.B. from the University of Ife in 1984 and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1985. She then proceeded to London, to get more equipped academically. She completed an LL.M. in Commercial and Corporate Law at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, plus additional postgraduate programmes in International Dispute Resolution and International Business Law. She is qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. She is also a Certified arbitrator and the former Secretary of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Nigeria branch / UK-Nigeria). She was a Managing Partner in the law firm, Norfolk Partners and once an editor of the Thisday Lawyer pullout, where she wrote the “Legal Eagle” column with over 120 editorials from 2014–2016. She has also served as the sole solicitor on the Presidential Projects Assessment Committee from 2010–2011, reviewing unfinished federal projects and on the ministerial committee that prepared the Roadmap for the Solid Minerals Sector in 2016. She was appointed National Commissioner of INEC in 2016 representing Delta State and reappointed in 2021, she became the longest-serving commissioner at the time of her acting chairmanship. She chaired and led the Legal Services, Clearance and Complaints Committee (LSCCC) and was involved in legal reforms, policy, stakeholder engagement, and oversight of off-cycle elections. She is Nigeria’s first woman to serve as INEC chairman even though it was for only 2 days, 7th to 9th October 2025 after Professor Mahmood Yakubu handed over and began terminal leave. May Agbamuche-Mbu is regarded for her legal expertise, administrative experience, and contributions to electoral processes. May Agbamuche-Mbu supervised as a National Commissioner 3 off-cycle governorship elections in Edo, Bayelsa and Rivers States. She is one of the oldest and coldest INEC staff members, a child of the system who would like the status quo to remain the same. Solid Fact: The Agbamuche-Mbu family is a big name and May’s dad once worked for the Queen of England Elizabeth.