The Independent National Electoral Commission has dismissed a social media report claiming that its Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, is preparing to resign.\n<\/p>\n
The commission described the claim, which was circulated alongside an image on social media, as false and fabricated.\n<\/p>\n
INEC stated this on Saturday <\/span> in a statement posted on its official X account, urging members of the public to disregard the report and avoid sharing unverified information.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThe claim is FALSE, FABRICATED AND MISLEADING,\u201d the commission said.<\/p>\n It urged Nigerians to rely on its official communication channels for authentic information.<\/p>\n The denial comes amid growing scrutiny of Amupitan\u2019s leadership following controversies surrounding the preliminary voters\u2019 register ahead of the 2027 general elections.\n<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n He also said 54 people across 10 states had been identified as allegedly involved in registration irregularities and could face disciplinary action, including prosecution. <\/p>\n The commission had received complaints over suspected multiple registrations, questionable photographs and other irregularities in the register.\n<\/p>\n The controversy followed Amupitan to London, where protesters confronted his vehicle outside Chatham House on Thursday, demanding his resignation over alleged problems with the voters\u2019 register.\n<\/p>\n The protesters surrounded the vehicle as he left a discussion on Nigeria\u2019s preparations for the 2027 elections, with some demanding that he come out to address their concerns.\n<\/p>\n At the Chatham House engagement, Amupitan acknowledged that the controversies surrounding the 2023 general elections had significantly damaged public confidence in INEC.\n<\/p>\n He, however, urged Nigerians to trust his leadership, saying the commission had introduced measures to address previous shortcomings and improve the conduct of future elections.\n<\/p>\n The INEC chairman also announced plans for a nationwide mock accreditation and voting exercise on November 28 to test upgrades to the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System and electronic transmission of results ahead of the 2027 polls.<\/p>\n He said the commission had introduced technical safeguards to prevent inaccurate polling unit results and figures indicating over-voting from being uploaded to its Result Viewing Portal.\n<\/p>\n 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.\n <\/p>\n Source: <\/p>\n The Independent National Electoral Commission has dismissed a social media report claiming that its Chairman, Prof. Joash Amupitan, is preparing to resign. The commission described the claim, which was circulated… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}