By Atinuke Alao
The Muslim Media Watch Group (MMWG), on Saturday, asked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to remove the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, for his alleged clandestine role that prompted United States to declare Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC).
The group alleged that the American Government after reading a report credited to Amupitan, which he allegedly wrote about genocide targeted at Christian community in 2022 while serving with the University of Jos, proceed to declare Nigeria as country of particular concern.
It said the leaked document showed that the INEC chairman lied against his fatherland for pecuniary interest.
The group made this known in a statement issued through its National Publicity Secretary, Dr Yusuf Agbabiaka, after the General Assembly of its members on Saturday.
It said the Legal Brief of Amupitan titled: GENOCIDE IN NIGERIA – THE IMPLICATION FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY contained falsehood, fallacies, and lies that portrayed Nigerian government in bad-light with the aim of tarnishing its good image.
The group maintained that the ill-motivated Legal Brief was part of the basis upon which US President Donald Trump was threatening the sovereignty of Nigeria, thus promoting tension, fear and insecurity of the citizens within Nigeria and abroad.
While condemning Amupitan over what it called baseless, reckless and irresponsible report, the MMWG stated that the author of such damaging legal brief is not qualified nor competent to come and seat in any position of authority in the country as he lacks pedigree to hold such an office.
The group explained that insecurity ravaging the country since 2009 made President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to between 2015 and 2020 decimate Boko Haram while President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been tackling insurgency, kidnapping and abduction for ransom with Budget for security annually remaining the highest for the past 5 years.
On Muslims and Christians relationship, the MMWG said there was cordiality and unity with inter-religious dialogues being organized both of them to deepen good relationship from time to time.
It maintained that Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) with its office situated in the Office of the SGF, comprising both Muslims and Christians Leaders whose activities were being coordinated by the federal government and was yielding fruitful results; until false reports of some unpatriotic christians came with the purpose of dismantling the existing good relationship.
The group said contrary to the falsehood contained in the alleged report of Amupitan to US, Muslims had the largest number victims of insecurity in terms of death, injured in about 15 states of the North with property destroyed during the attack was highly monumental.
The Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria said it wondered why an academic of Amupitan calibre could write such a false report that Christians were being targeted, pointing out that such a person that lied against the government lacks the temerity to hold public office.
It added that if the information about his role on the false Christians genocide was not known before his screening by the Senate, the fact that the false report has leaked, was sufficient to sack him from office and replace him with an amiable and responsible Christian who would not fan embers of religious hatred and wickedness like Amupitan.
The group called on the National Assembly to set necessary machinery in motion to investigate the 80-page report of Amupitan and advise the President on the suitability or otherwise of INEC Chairman who has been exposed by his negative report against his fatherland.
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