SACK AMUPITAN FOR GOOFING ON OSUN REC - MURIC
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‎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.
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‎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.
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‎MURIC said:
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‎"The resident electoral commissioner of Osun State, Barrister Mutiu Agboke, was recently replaced by Mrs. Toyin Babalola, a retired director of INEC.
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‎"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/).
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‎"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).
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‎"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.
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‎"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.
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‎"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. 
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‎"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.
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‎"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.
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"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."