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Amupitan Not Resigning — INEC Debunks Viral Image After London’s Chatham Protest
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has dismissed a social media report claiming its Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, is set to resign, describing the claim as false, fabricated and misleading.
INEC issued the denial on Saturday in a statement posted on its official X account, after a misleading image alleging the chairman’s resignation circulated online.”The claim is FALSE, FABRICATED AND MISLEADING,” the commission said.
“Members of the public are urged to disregard the fabricated report, refrain from sharing unverified information and rely solely on INEC’s official communication channels for authentic information. Stop the spread of fake news,” it added.
The denial comes two days after Amupitan was confronted by Nigerian protesters outside Chatham House in London on Thursday.
The protesters surrounded the vehicle conveying him as he left a dialogue on Nigeria’s preparations for the 2027 elections, demanding his resignation over alleged problems with the voters’ register.
They accused INEC of compromising its neutrality and favouring President Bola Tinubu and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the polls, and raised concerns over alleged duplicate registrations, questionable polling units and photographs suspected to have been generated with artificial intelligence.
At the Chatham House engagement, Amupitan acknowledged that controversies surrounding the 2023 general elections had significantly damaged public confidence in INEC.
He also denied operating a pro-Tinubu X account, saying he had never had an X account and that the matter had been reported to the Department of State Services and the Inspector-General of Police.
The protest followed growing scrutiny of the preliminary voters’ register ahead of the 2027 general elections.
On November 9, Amupitan disclosed that INEC had removed 1,608,660 invalid registrations from the preliminary register following a review of entries from the 2025 and 2026 Continuous Voter Registration exercises.
The 2027 presidential and National Assembly elections are scheduled for January 16, while governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections will hold on February 6.
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