Presidency Knocks ADC Over Call to Remove INEC Chairman Amupitan
The Presidency has said leaders of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), including Interim National Chairman David Mark, National Secretary Rauf Aregbesola, and spokesman Bolaji Abdullahi, cannot dictate how the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Joash Amupitan, should perform his duties.
The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Media and Publicity, Temitope Ajayi, described Amupitan as a highly accomplished professional at the peak of his academic and legal career.
His remarks followed calls by Mark and other ADC chieftains for Amupitan to resign during a press conference held in Abuja.
Mark had also urged President Tinubu to remove the INEC chairman, alleging that he lacks the capacity to conduct elections in Nigeria.
Reacting in a post on X, Ajayi wrote, “We all can at least agree that the INEC chairman is at the top of his career academically and professionally – a teacher of law, Professor of law and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.
“What this means is he sure knows what ‘status quo ante bellum’ means.
“Senator David Mark, Mr. Peter Obi, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi, certainly, can’t teach him what that Latin legal maxim means.
“It is bad politics for ADC people to make their own internal crisis of choice a problem of Professor Amupitan, that of President Tinubu and APC.”
