MUSLIM RIGHTS CONCERN (MURIC)
هيئة حقوق المسلمين
Motto: Dialogue,
Not Violence
11th May, 2026
PRESS RELEASE:
SACK AMUPITAN FOR GOOFING ON OSUN REC - MURIC
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), an Islamic human rights
organization, has again called for the removal of the chairman of the
Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan.
This will be the fourth time that the group will be calling for Amupitan's sack
although for a different reason this time around.
In a statement circulated to the media on Monday, 11th May, 2026,
the Executive Director of MURIC , Professor Ishaq Akintola, accused the INEC
boss of professional impropriety in the way and manner the INEC resident
commissioner of Osun State, Barrister Mutiu Agboke, was replaced.
MURIC said:
"The resident electoral commissioner of Osun State,
Barrister Mutiu Agboke, was recently replaced by Mrs. Toyin Babalola, a retired
director of INEC.
"Not
long afterwards, the National Vice Chairman of the Labour Party (South-West),
Mr. Abayomi Arabambi, revealed that he was removed due to a petition written by
the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Osun State ( https://leadership.ng/osun-governorship-arabambi-calls-for-reversal-of-recs-transfer/).
"MURIC is greatly disturbed by this revelation. We are
worried that a referee in a football match took unilateral decision over
a complaint made by one side without recourse to the linesmen or the VAR (Video
Assistant Referee).
"It is equally worrisome that no public explanation was
given for the action. It is reckless, thoughtless and despotic. The optics
presented here are suggestive of marching orders given to the chief electoral
officer of a state who has been unwilling to bend principles as requested by
the powers that be.
"More
intriguing is the fact that the woman brought in as the replacement is a
retired director of INEC who still has a court case pending. Something is
definitely wrong with this procedure.
"We
demand a reversal of the redeployment of the former resident electoral
commissioner of Osun State, Barrister Mutiu Agboke. Apart from being motivated
by partisan interest, his redeployment failed to follow due process.
"Once
again, we reiterate our demand for the sack of Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan as
INEC boss. With the plethora of agitations against him over his past and
present misdeeds (his 80-page authorship of the Christian genocide legal brief
to America, his misplaced delisting of a political party, his controversial X
account, etc), it has been proved beyond any reasonable doubt that he is
incapable of taking independent and unbiased decisions.
"Leaving the fate of more than 220 million Nigerians in the
hands of such a seemingly compromised person can be likened to leaving a fully
loaded aeroplane in the hands of a carpenter who has never driven an
ordinary car before, to fly hapless passengers from Congo to Moscow.
"We have not seen neutrality. INEC's pitch suffers from
desertification of objectivity. Its football field is filled with angry
players and horrified spectators. It appears a carpenter is flying the INEC
plane. It is high time Amupitan left. Pull the ejector button, Prof. You goofed
real time."
#INEC
#Amupitan
#ReverseOsunRecTransfer
Professor Ishaq
Akintola,
Founder/Executive
Director,
Muslim Rights
Concern (MURIC).






