Get Guardian on GoogleThe Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) 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, 11 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.
He 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).”
Akintola stated that MURIC is disturbed by this revelation and 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).
He lamented that no public explanation was given for the action, which he described as 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,” he said.
MURIC demanded a reversal of the redeployment of the former resident electoral commissioner of Osun State, Barrister Mutiu Agboke, noting that 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,” Akintola said.
