MUSLIM RIGHTS
CONCERN (MURIC)
هيئة حقوق المسلمين
Motto: Dialogue,
Not Violence
6th April, 2026
PRESS RELEASE:
AMUPITAN MUST GO: HE IS A THREAT
TO RELIGIOUS HARMONY - MURIC
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Replace him with a tolerant Christian
A non-govermental, non-profit making, faith-based, civil liberties
group, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has again demanded the sack of the
chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor
Joash Amupitan.
MURIC's grouse with INEC chairman is the toxic 80-page legal
brief authored by the professor which was one of the major documents used by
the United States of America to indict Nigeria on the highly controversial and
volatile issue of Christian genocide.
MURIC said:
"We are highly disappointed with both the Federal Government
(FG) and Professor Joash Amupitan for their graveyard silence over the demand
of the Nigerian Muslim Community that the INEC boss should be removed for
penning the toxic 80-page legal brief which was one of the major documents used
by the United States of America to indict Nigeria on the highly controversial
and volatile issue of Christian genocide.
"We are especially disappointed that FG has
elected to ignore calls to sack the INEC boss made by several Islamic
organizations in the country. It is lack of sensitivity.
"As far as Nigerian Muslims are concerned, Joash Amupitan
has become personna non grata to our own vision of the Nigerian electoral
architecture. Even the PVC revalidation exercise being planned by him is seen
by us as a trap where prospective Muslim voters will be massively
disenfranchised.
"Amupitan has become an electoral burden to INEC, a human
landmine and the personification of existential threat to Nigerian Muslim
voters.
"He sold Nigeria once. He will sell Nigeria again. Anyone
who invites imperialists into the internal affairs of his country deserves
treason-related scrutiny. We hereby declare a vote of no confidence in the
current INEC boss. FG should replace him with a tolerant Christian. To us,
Amupitan is a live wire, highly combustible.
"Even if FG did not act, he is expected to have
voluntarily resigned with the gravity of the allegation leveled against him.
That would have been integrity activated. But Amupitan continues to hang on to
a loose string from a spider's web in spite of the grave allegation staring him
in the face.
"Nigeria cannot advance in any notable field if people like
Amupitan continue to revel in the infamous sit-tight syndrome. The INEC boss
should know when the party is over. He should know very well that he could not
have been appointed to that sensitive office if his pathological hatred for
Muslims had been known earlier, particularly his ignoble role in pushing the
false, misleading and malicious Christian genocide narrative.
"Amupitan should have resigned honourably after the lid was
blown off the entire thing. But he held on, desperately. The most interesting
aspect of all these is that our INEC boss has not denied involvement to date.
Observers are miffed by his silence because it is only in Nigeria that such
impunity thrives. People resign from office in other climes over such scandals
and misdeeds.
The list
of those who resigned from public offices over scandals in more civilised
environments include Rep. Jim Wright (House Speaker 1989), Rep. Bob Livingston
(Speaker 1998), British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (over the 'Pincher
scandal' and 'Partygate' 2022) and more recently, in January 2025, Treasury
Minister Tulip Siddiq resigned over questions regarding her financial ties to
the ousted Bangladeshi leader.
"But never in Nigeria where sit-tight syndrome is
the order of the day. Perhaps the INEC boss thinks we would soon get tired of
the matter. Hiw wrong can he be! On the contrary, we are just starting. Aluta
continua, victoria acerta. We welcome Professor Joash Amupitan to
'genocidegate'.
"Nigeria has never had a worse umpire at the helm of our
electoral affairs. He is a living embodiment of Muslim-Christian dichotomy. He
is therefore a potent threat to religious harmony. It is hard for Muslims to
contemplate forgiveness with Amupitan as the electoral umpire. Amupitan must
go!"
#AmupitanMustGo
#Genocidegate
#INECBoss
Professor Ishaq
Akintola,
Founder/Executive
Director,
Muslim Rights
Concern (MURIC).
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