African Democratic Congress (ADC) youths are set to protest at the offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos, Ogun and Jigawa states today, demanding the removal of the Chairman, Joash Amupitan (SAN), under the #AmupitanMustGo campaign.

Meanwhile, INEC has detailed how a fabricated X (formerly Twitter) account was used in a coordinated attempt to frame its chairman, following a forensic investigation that it said found no link between him and the viral posts attributed to his name.

Also, having the back of the INEC boss is the Faculty of Law at the University of Jos (UNIJOS), which dismissed the allegations by former Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Solomon Dalung, against Amupitan over the purported commercialisation of the results of 16 “special students” in the 2009/2010 session while he was the Dean.

ADC National Youth Leader, Balarabe Rufai, in a post on X yesterday, shared flyers for the Lagos and Ogun demonstrations, both tagged ‘Operation Occupy INEC’.

According to Rufai, the Lagos protest will begin at 8 a.m. from Yaba College of Technology, while the Ogun protest is scheduled for 11 a.m. at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) office in Abeokuta.

Prominent opposition figures had staged a similar ‘Occupy INEC’ protest in Abuja on April 8, 2026. The protesters included Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Rotimi Amaechi, Rauf Aregbesola and Dino Melaye.

ON Amupitan’s ordeal, INEC said the probe, conducted with the support of independent cybersecurity experts, established that the account, @joashamupitan, and the controversial post, “Victory is sure,” were products of digital manipulation and impersonation.

The commission said the disinformation surfaced on April 10, 2026, when screenshots began circulating online claiming Amupitan had made a partisan comment in response to a post by @dayoisrael.

The claims gained traction after being accompanied by alleged supporting data, including email addresses, phone numbers and bank verification details.

Following the claims, many groups and politicians called for the removal or resignation of the INEC chairman.

But the electoral umpire, through the Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman, Adedayo Oketola, stated yesterday that forensic analysis dismantled the claims, describing them as “technically impossible” and part of a wider effort to mislead the public.

According to INEC, one of the most damning findings was a timestamp anomaly showing that the alleged reply credited to Amupitan was posted 13 minutes before the original tweet it purportedly responded to.

Further checks on the X platform revealed no trace of the alleged reply, while exhaustive searches returned zero results linking the content to any account operated by Amupitan.

The commission added that attempts to connect the disputed account to Amupitan’s verified email address through X’s password recovery system failed, while similar efforts using his phone number yielded no link.

According to INEC, findings from the investigation revealed: “The X account was created in September 2022. However, there is no linkage between the X account and Amupitan’s Yahoo or UNIJOS emails.

“Wayback Machine searches show zero records of @joashamupitan on X (Twitter) before April 2026. The alleged reply @joashamupitan to @dayoisreal’s post is absent from all live and archived threads. On April 10, 2026, the same day the screenshots went viral, @joashamupitan was renamed to @sundayvibe00, set to private, and labelled ‘Parody Account’. This is consistent with deliberate impersonation and damage-control.”

WHILE explaining that nothing of such ever happened in that class, or indeed any other class before or after it, to the best knowledge of the members of its Board, the Faculty said Dalung spoke as a partisan politician of ADC.

The Dean of UNIJOS Faculty of Law, Prof. Francis Kwede, told journalists in Abuja, that there was no manipulation and trading off of results of any number of final year students who had Second Class Upper Division in favour of any group of “special students” who were alleged to have undeservedly bagged the said class of degree.

According to him, since there are no facts or records to substantiate the allegation of result favouritism and the resultant victimisation as alleged, the same should thus be ignored as comments made in the heat of partisan and political rhetoric.